Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with mencoder

["Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>]

Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:39:50 +0200
> Robert Cernansky <hslists2@zoznam.sk> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:59:24 -0400 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>>
>>> /opt/mplayer-bin/bin/mencoder-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
>>> liblirc_client.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>>> directory
>>>
>>> I've run revdep-rebuild with that library and re-emerged mplayer and I
>>> still get this error.  How do I fix this?
>> Binary /opt/mplayer-bin/bin/mencoder-bin belongs to 'mplayer-bin'
>> package (the precompiled 32 bit version of mplayer), not 'mplayer'.
>>
>> Try to use mencoder, not mencoder-bin, or try to re-emerge mplayer-bin
>> package.
>>
> Re-emerging it shouldn't make a difference, since nothing can be
> recompiled or relinked. Mplayer-bin just uncompress the binary package
> and copies the files to the relevant directories.
> 
> This is the same problem that arises in binary distros. You can't
> update a library without breaking your system until someone compiles
> the relevant packages against that new version of the library.
> 
> Anyway, why are you using mplayer-bin at all? Mplayer will play
> using native codecs almost anything. Including wmv9 (non-drm'd,
> of course) and realmedia.
> 

That's a good question.  It's not a matter of playing the particular
file as it is I want to rip the audio from it.  I do not know why
mencoder isn't on my system and why mencoder-bin is.  I've not emerged
mplayer-bin as all, just mplayer for my amd64 box.  I'm very confused by
this.



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