libvpx update broke a few things...

pchristy · 11-01-2021, 11:40 AM

The last update to libvpx broke a few things on my system, namely ffmpeg, mpv and vlc.

ffmeg and mpv are simple enough to rebuild, but vlc is a nightmare and I keep running into dependency hell with it. My working version was kindly supplied by sndwvs, and I'd love to know how he managed to build it! (Hint! Hint!

)

Any chance of a source package for it?

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Pete

slacksam · 11-01-2021, 12:24 PM

On slarm64 it also broke seamonkey 2.53.9.1, which complains with

Code:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/seamonkey/libxul.so:
libvpx.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

A dirty solution is to create a symlink as root

Code:

# cd /usr/lib64/
# ln -sv libvpx.so.7.0.0 libvpx.so.6
'libvpx.so.6' -> 'libvpx.so.7.0.0'

which lets seamonkey work again.

sndwvs · 11-01-2021, 01:46 PM

updated mpv(build) and vlc(build)
mpv-0.34.0-aarch64-1mara.txz
vlc-3.0.16-aarch64-1mara.txz

sndwvs · 11-01-2021, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slacksam

On slarm64 it also broke seamonkey 2.53.9.1, which complains with

Code:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/seamonkey/libxul.so:
libvpx.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

A dirty solution is to create a symlink as root

Code:

# cd /usr/lib64/
# ln -sv libvpx.so.7.0.0 libvpx.so.6
'libvpx.so.6' -> 'libvpx.so.7.0.0'

which lets seamonkey work again.

wait until they update in slackware64

pchristy · 11-01-2021, 02:18 PM

sndwvs: Many thanks for the quick response!

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Pete

pchristy · 11-08-2021, 04:51 AM

sndwvs: Had a problem with your updated VLC package. I use kaffeine as a TV viewer/recorder which relies on libvlc. After installing your upgrade, it could no longer playback dtv - though strangely, it could record it, and the recordings played back in mpv just fine!

I suspect you were missing something when you compiled vlc - possibly libmpeg2, which seems to handle mts streams used by dtv?. I recompiled it on my machine from your sources, and kaffeine now works as expected.

Just a "heads up", not a complaint!

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Pete

sndwvs · 11-08-2021, 10:59 AM

pchristy thanks, update vlc-3.0.16-aarch64-2mara.txz