Re: which package contains avisynth.dll

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 
> With mplayer, it gives the following error
> 
> $mplayer shoutcast-playlist.pls
> ...
> ...
> Playing shoutcast-playlist.pls.
> Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load:
> avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
>
> Which package contains avisynth.dll? I tried looking at apt-file,
> apt-cache, google etc., but could not find it anywhere for Debian.
> What puzzles me is that the .pls works in amarok, kaffeine etc., but
> does not work with mplayer... Any ideas/suggestions?

The usual cure for this is to add the -playlist option:

    mplayer -playlist <file_to_play>

You do NOT need avisynth.dll.