[MPlayer-users] mplayer won't start anyomre: libavcodec error

[Martin Collins]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:15:37 +0200
Boniforti Flavio <bonnyfused at tiscali.it> wrote:

> I'm on Debian SID and as I run mplayer I get this error:
> 
> mplayer: relocation error: /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.0.4.9-pre1:
> undefined symbol: faacDecOpen
> 
> How do I repair this situation?

Somebody asked this question yesterday. Here is my reply again:

Looks like Marillat has built mplayer with shared object libraries and
an incompatability has crept in. It is better to get the cvs version of
mplayer and ffmpeg and build a static version. Mplayer has a debian
directory so you can build a deb and not screw up your package
management.
Otherwise use ldd and nm to try and track down which library versions
you need. My version of libavcodec uses libfaad not libfaac.

Martin