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saronno

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[SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

It's not presente in the libvpx package.
Should I make a symbolic link?

Last edited by saronno (2015-04-24 17:23:03)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Post the output of

uname -a
pacman -Qs mplayer

saronno

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Post the output of

uname -a
pacman -Qs mplayer

# uname -a
Linux kanon 3.19.3-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 14:10:00 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# pacman -Qs mplayer
local/mplayer-vaapi 36265-14
    A movie player, compiled with vaapi support
local/smplayer 14.9.0.6690-1
    A complete front-end for MPlayer
local/smplayer-skins 1:14.9.0-1
    Skins for SMPlayer
local/smplayer-themes 1:14.9.0-1
    Themes for SMPlayer

The problem is that I use mplayer-vaapi.
Anyway the symbolic link solved the problem.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Anyway the symbolic link solved the problem.

It's not a solution. Rebuild mplayer-vaapi https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mplayer-vaapi/

Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Making symbolic links like that is *terrible*. Do not do that. EVER. It "works" only by chance, because mplayer won't actually be using libvpx.

The proper solution is is to recompile mplayer-vaapi. I'd also recommend switching from mplayer-vaapi to mpv, it has a much better vaapi implementation, and other nice things.

Last edited by Gusar (2015-04-24 15:18:05)

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Symlink is a workaround. Take a look wether the file exists, but has a different so nuber. If this is true, you most likely don't have your system fully updated (and that's why partial updates are unsupported in arch). If the file is really missing you can use pkgfile and determine which package owns (therefore provides) that file.

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

If the file is really missing you can use pkgfile and determine which package owns (therefore provides) that file.

$ pkgfile libvpx.so.1
$ 

+1 for mpv.

Last edited by karol (2015-04-24 15:29:55)

Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Symlink is a workaround.

No, it is *not* a workaround. It is a terrible terrible hack, something that should not ever be propagated as valid, even under the name of "workaround".

A different library number means different API/ABI. you can't just point an application expecting API version 1 to a library that has API version 2. The version was bumped because the API has changed in incompatible ways. It can only work by chance - the application isn't using any functions that have changed between versions 1 and 2. But if it is using changed functions, say hello to your application crashing.

Do not ever make such symlinks. Do not ever encourage people to do that.

saronno

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

I am a bit undecise.
Right now I am using the radeon driver instead of catalyst (when I choose to use vaapi) ...
would it be better vdpau+mplayer or mvp and vaapi?

Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

With radeon, mpv+vdpau. VDPAU is better designed, and it gets much more attention from the mpv developers.

With catalyst, mpv+vaapi. Except if you'll hit the blue people bug (it seems proprietary vendors simply can't get video right, the Adobe guys screwed it up with Flash, the AMD guys screwed it up with catalyst).

saronno

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

thanks

saronno

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Just a thing .... I am trying to use mvp with smplayer and smtube .... it works, but it seems to have some caching problem.
I tried to modify cache in the smplayer interface and also add --cache in the command line option but I can't obtain a good
result.

Any specific advise?

Last edited by saronno (2015-04-24 21:16:20)

Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

My advice would be to not use smplayer. It tries to use mpv as if it was mplayer, but it's not. mpv is quite different internally. smplayer would need to be completely rewritten to use mpv as it is meant to be used - by linking to libmpv and using the client API.

mpv can load youtube links directly if you install youtube-dl. All sites supported by youtube-dl work.

saronno

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

My advice would be to not use smplayer. It tries to use mpv as if it was mplayer, but it's not. mpv is quite different internally. smplayer would need to be completely rewritten to use mpv as it is meant to be used - by linking to libmpv and using the client API.

mpv can load youtube links directly if you install youtube-dl. All sites supported by youtube-dl work.

Anyway it's a pity, because I like smtube very much. MPV requires me to search directly on youtube website ....

Last edited by saronno (2015-04-24 21:49:33)

Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Well, if you're using radeon now, you can use mplayer, it has vdpau support.

Also, going by smtube's optional dependencies, it can use a bunch of players, it isn't tied to smplayer. If it can't use mpv directly yet, adding this functionality probably isn't hard. Maybe make a feature request to the smtube developers.

saronno

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Well, if you're using radeon now, you can use mplayer, it has vdpau support.

Also, going by smtube's optional dependencies, it can use a bunch of players, it isn't tied to smplayer. If it can't use mpv directly yet, adding this functionality probably isn't hard. Maybe make a feature request to the smtube developers.

Actually it can .... I will give it a try ...

snoxu

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Just stumbled upon this libvpx.so.1 missing issue with mpv.

I read the whole thread and I'm still scratching my head how does one actually solve it?

Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

The issue here wasn't with mpv, but using mplayer-vaapi from AUR. The only way you could have issues with mpv is if you don't use the package from [community], but a custom compile. In which case the solution is the same as for mplayer-vaapi or any other AUR package - recompile.

snoxu

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

I did a system update yesterday and my mpv kaput:

mpv: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried compiling mpv-git and it doesn't build.

Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

I tried compiling mpv-git and it doesn't build.

Then this is obviously what you should focus on. Or simply use the package from [community] instead of mpv-git for now, until you figure out why mpv-git doesn't build for you.

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Just a note as I encountered the same issue here:

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.1:

Rebuilded mplayer-vaapi as karol suggested and now the videos play fine with (u)mplayer.

$ pacman -Qs mplayer
local/mplayer-vaapi 36265-14
local/umplayer 0.97_svn181-2
┌─[kozaki@llewellyn]─[/mnt/mm/bt]
$ pacman -Qi libvpx
1 extra/libvpx 1.4.0-2

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

This shouldn't come as a surprise. If you use unofficial packages form the AUR, then it's your responsibility to keep them up-to-date (which includes rebuilding them when the system libraries update).

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snoxu

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

In my case I think I had ffmpeg-git from aur. I believe it was causing the issue. I had no clue for at least a month maybe more...

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

In my case I think I had ffmpeg-git from aur. I believe it was causing the issue. I had no clue for at least a month maybe more...

To be blunt, you probably shouldn't be replacing important packages with ones from the AUR if it took you a month to figure this out.

snoxu

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Re: [SOLVED] mplayer crash: libvpx.so.1 missing

Lol that's the beauty of Linux you can tinker to your heart's content. I probably installed ffmpeg-git to fix some other issue

Last edited by snoxu (2015-06-22 07:18:55)