Re: which package contains avisynth.dll

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:38:45PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> > The usual cure for this is to add the -playlist option:
> > 
> >     mplayer -playlist <file_to_play>
> > 
> > You do NOT need avisynth.dll.
> 
> Do you know why the playlist option helps? I'm really curios since I 
> really can't see any connection (and I see the same error from time
> to time).

AFAICT, a .pls file is a playlist file (like .asx and .asf), so mplayer
needs the playlist option to look for streams inside.
The error with avisynth.dll seems to be a generic error message.
You could try googling for 'mplayer avisynth playlist' to find some more
hints.