mplayer error

[oldman]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:37 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>   
>> When trying to use mplayer I get:
>> mplayer: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined
>> symbol: faacDecOpen
>>
>> From some googling I've found that other users (on various linux
>> forums) have the same problem. Two users fixed their problems but
>> didn't bother to post their solutions.
>>     
>
> I had this after an update, and resolved it so long ago that I don't
> recall the solution, other than it was installing another RPM that
> hadn't been pulled in as a dependency (perhaps faac-1.25-2.lvn6 or
> faad2-2.0-19.20050131.lvn6).
>
> # rpm -qa \*faa\*
> faad2-2.0-19.20050131.lvn6
> faac-1.25-2.lvn6
>
> I did find an answer on the web somewhere, here's one comment about it:
>
> "To those getting "undefined symbol: faacDecOpen": do you have
> libfaad2-0 installed? If not, try to install it. Some googling suggests
> that this could be the problem... HTH."
>
> See:  <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2026170>
>
>   
Thanks Tim!

    As you might expect it was my own stupid fault not checking what
freshrpms wanted to download (I knew better too!)

1 down, ?? to go

Scott