Re: Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips

[Nick Coleman <ncoleman@iinet.net.au>]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:48, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> Had these installed but just noticed that the mplayerplug-in*.so
> files are now missing.  Still have the mplayerplug-in*.xpt files.
> Reinstalled
> mozilla-mplayer and got mplayerplug-in.so back in
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but not the other shown below:
>    mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
>    mplayerplug-in-qt.so
>    mplayerplug-in-rm.so
>    mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
> These may have come from a sid version but were still in
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> after purging and installing the stable versions.  I even copied the
> -wmp one to
> ~/.mozilla/plugins Ran mplayer on a Yahoo trailer with this result:
> ChatagnierL-Home:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# mplayer
> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/top/noteworthy/thebrothersgrimm/?http:/
>/movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/thebrothersgrimm.html mplayer: error
> while loading shared libraries: libaa.so.1: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> ChatagnierL-Home:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins#
> Not sure what this is telling me.  Wajiged everything I knew and
> apt-cached searched libaa.so.1; didn't show anything.
>

Hmm, something very borked.  Look at this:

xxx@drizzen:/etc$ locate libaa
/usr/lib/libaa.a
/usr/lib/libaa.la
/usr/lib/libaa.so
/usr/lib/libaa.so.1
/usr/lib/libaa.so.1.0.4
xxx@drizzen:/etc$ ll /usr/lib/libaa*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 157334 2004-08-06 08:02 /usr/lib/libaa.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    830 2004-08-06 08:02 /usr/lib/libaa.la
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     14 2005-05-06 17:29 /usr/lib/libaa.so -> 
libaa.so.1.0.4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     14 2005-02-28 12:08 /usr/lib/libaa.so.1 -> 
libaa.so.1.0.4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 104112 2004-08-06 08:02 /usr/lib/libaa.so.1.0.4

I haven't any other suggestions than removing mplayer completely and 
re-installing, or else try searching for libaa.so.*, iinstalling that 
and creating the links.

Mine is a standard Sarge install.
Nick