Ubuntu
mplayer package

9.10 mplayer will not start

Bug #486918 reported by Ryan B on 2009-11-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #442195: neither mplayer or vlc does not show any videos. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mplayer (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mplayer

Processor 2x AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 240 Processor
Memory 4058MB (1321MB used)
Operating System Ubuntu 9.10

Mplayer will not start on my system at all.

From the shell:
[coffeeboy:~]-[08:57:36 on Sun Nov 22]-> mplayer
mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 0e1f239652c0bc46165ac21f29bd0cad
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Sun Nov 22 20:59:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
libavcodec52 N/A
libavcodec-extra-52 4:0.5+svn20090926-0ubuntu3~tj~ppa1k
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.31-15-generic

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Ryan B (coffebean) wrote on 2009-11-23:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SystemConf.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote on 2009-11-23: Re: [Bug 486918] [NEW] 9.10 mplayer will not start

Ryan B <email address hidden> writes:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: mplayer
>
> Processor 2x AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 240 Processor
> Memory 4058MB (1321MB used)
> Operating System Ubuntu 9.10
>
> Mplayer will not start on my system at all.
>
>>From the shell:
> [coffeeboy:~]-[08:57:36 on Sun Nov 22]-> mplayer
> mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> libavcodec52 N/A
> libavcodec-extra-52 4:0.5+svn20090926-0ubuntu3~tj~ppa1k

and this is the reason. install ubuntu's libavcodec package to unbreak
mplayer.

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

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Ryan B (coffebean) wrote on 2009-11-23:

I just checked and I already have libavcodec-extra-52 installed.

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Ryan B (coffebean) wrote on 2009-11-23:

I just removed libavcodec-extra-52 and installed the standard libavcodec52. Now Mplayer starts.

Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Committed

Ryan B (coffebean) on 2009-11-25

Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Incomplete

Reinhard Tartler (siretart) on 2009-11-25

Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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itsjustarumour (itsjustarumour-gmail-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-01-29:

Hi,
I don't believe this bug is invalid as I'm still getting exactly the same problem on a fresh and updated install of Karmic 9.10 32bit. I've tried both mplayer from the Ubuntu repos and also a more up-to-date version from a 3rd-party repo. Running mplayer in terminal still gives:

ian@COOLERMASTER:~$ mplayer
mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags
ian@COOLERMASTER:~$

I don't have libavcodec-extra-52 on my system, I still have the standard Ubuntu libavcodec52 installed.

Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → Incomplete

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itsjustarumour (itsjustarumour-gmail-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-01-29:

Changing status to "incomplete" due to the above.

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itsjustarumour (itsjustarumour-gmail-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-01-29:

OK, I've got Mplayer working now by following this howto here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305181

to install mplayer-nogui package from SVN, and then the SMPlayer front-end. This howto includes installation of gcc 4.3 as opposed to using the older gcc 4.1

Perhaps this bug relates to a problem between the standard Ubuntu MPlayer packages, and the older version of gcc?