SOLVED - Cannot view movies after recent update

[seaeagle1965]

I originally posted this in the Gwenview segmentation fault topic, however since many other programs seem to be affected by recent updates I thought I had better open a new topic. It looks like the 2 recent updates I did broke more than the Gwenview plugins. Now I cannot open any movies (avi, mpeg, mp4, wmv) in kplayer, mplayer or vlc. The 2 updates I did are:

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Commit Log for Mon Feb 18 02:09:28 2013

Installed the following packages:
libavfilter-extra2 (0.8.5-1pclos2013)
libopus0 (1.0.2-1pclos2013)
libpostproc-extra52 (0.8.5-1pclos2013)
libunicap (0.9.12-2pclos2013)
libunicap2 (0.9.12-2pclos2013)
libwebp-devel (0.2.1-1pclos2013)
libwebp4 (0.2.1-1pclos2013)
opus-tools (0.1.6-1pclos2013)

Installed the following packages:
libavformats-extra53 (0.8.5-1pclos2013)
libavutil-extra51 (0.8.5-1pclos2013)
libswscaler-extra2 (0.8.5-1pclos2013)
libzlib-devel (1.2.7-1pclos2013)
libzlib1 (1.2.7-1pclos2013)


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Commit Log for Mon Feb 18 01:10:56 2013

Removed the following packages:
zlib1-devel

Upgraded the following packages:
bluez (4.101-4pclos2013) to 4.101-5pclos2013
bluez-alsa (4.101-4pclos2013) to 4.101-5pclos2013
bluez-cups (4.101-4pclos2013) to 4.101-5pclos2013
bluez-gstreamer (4.101-4pclos2013) to 4.101-5pclos2013
kipi-plugins (2.9.0-2pclos2013) to 3.0.0-1pclos2013
kipi-plugins-doc (2.9.0-2pclos2013) to 3.0.0-1pclos2013
kipi-plugins-libs (2.9.0-2pclos2013) to 3.0.0-1pclos2013
libbluez3 (4.101-4pclos2013) to 4.101-5pclos2013
libkface (2.9.0-2pclos2013) to 3.0.0-1pclos2013
libkgeomap (2.9.0-2pclos2013) to 3.0.0-1pclos2013
libkvkontakte (2.9.0-2pclos2013) to 3.0.0-1pclos2013
liblibav53 (0.8.4-1pclos2012) to 0.8.5-1pclos2013
libmediawiki (2.9.0-2pclos2013) to 3.0.0-1pclos2013
libvpx1 (1.1.0-2pclos2012) to 1.1.0-2pclos2013
opencv (2.2.0-3pclos2011) to 2.4.2-2pclos2013
pciids (0.7-13pclos2012) to 0.7-14pclos2013

Installed the following packages:
libavformats-extra53 (0.8.5-1pclos2013)
libavutil-extra51 (0.8.5-1pclos2013)
libswscaler-extra2 (0.8.5-1pclos2013)
libzlib-devel (1.2.7-1pclos2013)
libzlib1 (1.2.7-1pclos2013)

At the moment Synaptic is showing the following installed packages as obsolete:

libavfilter1
libavformats52
libpostproc51
libswscaler0
libvpx0

I cannot remove them as doing so would remove many other programs such as ffmpeg, calligra, kde-baseapps - virtually my entire KDE system. Trying to play a wmv movie in mplayer via Konsole gives the following error:

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have both libvpx0 & libvpx1 as well as libvpx-devel & libvpx-utils installed. libvpx0 is shown as obsolete, but removing it would remove a couple of dozen other packages such as gstreamer, kde-multimedia, mplayer, libalsa-plugins.

[ZephonSoul]

I had the same issue, I've found this on VectorLinux forum which solved it for me:

This maybe part of the issue.

Try this as root in the terminal

ln -s /usr/lib/libvpx.so /usr/lib/libvpx.so.0

I think you may have upgraded libvpx past the version it was built against.  I recreated the same error you got by upgrading libvpx on it's own.

I could not play the link in you example, however, I think perhaps because the link just points to a directory and not a specific file.

Hope this helps. 

[seaeagle1965]

I had the same issue, I've found this on VectorLinux forum which solved it for me:

This maybe part of the issue.

Try this as root in the terminal

ln -s /usr/lib/libvpx.so /usr/lib/libvpx.so.0

I think you may have upgraded libvpx past the version it was built against.  I recreated the same error you got by upgrading libvpx on it's own.

I could not play the link in you example, however, I think perhaps because the link just points to a directory and not a specific file.

Hope this helps. 

That did the trick. I am now able to open wmv, avi, mp4 & flv files successfully. Cheers & thanks

[sleeper]

Look: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,113499.msg968294.html#msg968294

The method outlined here is not particularly advisable. If you must have a workaround, enable the ibiblio repository mirror in Synaptic and reinstall the libvpx0 package (it will no longer be listed as obsolete). (Or if you must, download the package manually from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.main/libvpx0-0.9.6-2pclos2011.i586.rpm)

A more proper fix will arrive eventually, as usually via regular package updates.

[seaeagle1965]

Thanks (again) - I reinstalled the old package from the ibiblio server as advised.

One of the reasons I love Linux (especially PCLinuxOS) so much is that it is very easy to get good advice from forums such as this one when something goes wrong (or when you are just looking for a new/better way to do something). Cheers