DeVeDe Can't Find Mplayer, Mencoder error in Ubuntu 9.10 64bit

[Chris]

Hello,

I am getting the following error in Ubuntu 9.10 64bit when launching
DeVeDe. Error can't find Mplayer, Mencoder DeVeDe needs them to work.
If you want to use DeVeDe, you must install of them. I have verified
that they are installed but DeVeDe doesn't see them as installed.

Can someone help me out please on figuring this out. Thanks.

[Juan Antonio Ledo Beccaglia]

I had the same problem 2 days ago.. this is caused by some mess of
packages, I don't remember which ones, I think ffmpeg ones. What I did,
and you are not gonna like it is to reinstall.. It was weird because
when I reinstalled (without formatting), neither of the system folders
were deleted, so the problem was the same as my system folders.. so then
I formatted and I was very careful regarding the packages I installed. I
did NOT install ubuntu-restricted-extras neither openshot. I installed
only the basic gstreamer codecs.

Good luck to you!

[Chris]

Thanks will try it again when 9.10 64bit comes out on the 29th. I was
going to do a complete reinstall at that point anyway. I will see how
it goes once I install it again. Still seems that it would be a bug
with the program in regards to the new Ubuntu 9.10 64bit though. It
should see everything correct regardless I would think.

Thanks for the reply.

On Oct 26, 9:57 pm, Juan Antonio Ledo Beccaglia <juan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Aaron Eischeid]

this problem is still happening for me. I would rather not do a re
installation just for this program. anyone have any idea on why this
error is still happening? I do have openshot and restricted extras
installed, would uninstalling potentially fix the problem?

[Raster]

Sorry for the delay answering to this.

The problem with that must be one of these:

a) for some reason, mplayer and mencoder executables aren't installed
in /usr/bin nor in /usr/local/bin

b) that mplayer and mencoder versions returns an error to the
parameters used by Devede to check if they are installed.

To know what's happening, please, try this and post here the answer:
open a terminal and type:

mplayer -v
echo $?

and

mencoder -msglevel help
echo $?

[newruler]

I have the same issue, here are the results on those commands...
mplayer -v
mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol:
codec_wav_tags

mencoder -msglevel help
mencoder: symbol lookup error: mencoder: undefined symbol:
codec_wav_tags

I have executables located in /usr/bin
Look forward to assistance with this.

[Raster]

There is a problem with the libraries for Mplayer. That's the meaning
of the error "mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol:
codec_wav_tags".

I searched the web and found that other people with the same bug had
non-official repositories (eg: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536885
). Can you check that you have only the official repositories?