Mplayer broken. Unending missing libraries

[whatshisname]

Running Arch on an Odroid-C1.

Been struggling with mplayer all morning. Lots of missing libraries requiring downgrading a couple of packages, linking in libraries, etc.

Now mplayer is complaining:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.6.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
')

As far as I can tell, libdirectfb-1.6.so.0 doesn't exist!!

That is to say, "pkgfile libdirectfb-1.6.so.0", "pacman -Ss libdirectfb" and "packer -Ss libdirectfb" yield nothing. Neither does "locate libdirectfb".

An old thread says libdirectfb is in the AUR but it isn't there now.

I'm at a loss for what to do next.

[WarheadsSE]

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm ... /directfb/


I strongly suggest updating.

[whatshisname]

Ah, I was looking for "libdirectfb" and not "directfb".

So I installed the latest directfb-1.7 but mplayer is still searching for "libdirectfb-1.6.so.0" so still no joy.

I went to the rollback machine and as far back as January 1, 2013, directfb is at 1.7.

I also had to downgrade "libx264-1" to get this far.

So is this a case of waiting until mplayer catches up with everything else? It's hard to believe an important utility like mplayer is this far behind on a needed library.

[WarheadsSE]

This is from our build tree? Because mplayer was last built Sun Jan 11 16:35:54 2015 . It should have been built against directfb v 1.7.5-1 which was built Thu Jul 31 05:37:08 2014

[whatshisname]

I'm using the binary in the Arch repositories:

$>pacman -Ss mplayer

extra/mplayer 37353-1 [installed]
Media player for Linux