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
