ffmpeg from openshot-ffmpeg crashes undefined symbol

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Running openshot 0.9.43 on ubuntu 8.10 with the following all installed from debs yesterday:

Not sure what version of buildwizard?

nick@bilbo:~$ dpkg -l openshot*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii openshot 0.9.43 OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source, non-linear video edi
ii openshot-ffmpeg git-2623d8f-1 Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1
ii openshot-frei0r 1.1.22-1 Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1
ii openshot-mlt 0.4.3-1 Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1
ii openshot-x264 0.67.1173-1 Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1

openshot-ffmpeg installs to /ussr/local/bin whereas ffmpeg installs to /usr/bin.

The openshot version of ffmpeg (and ffplay and ffserver) crash with the following message:

ffmpeg: symbol lookup error: ffmpeg: undefined symbol: avformat_alloc_context

I am guessing this is some incompatibility with libavformat52. Installed versions are:

ii ffmpeg 3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3 multimedia player, server and encoder
ii libavformat52 3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3 ffmpeg file format library

ffmpeg in /usr/bin works fine.

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Hi Nick! Here is what I would recommend. I would un-install your main version of ffmpeg, libavformat, etc... I would then re-install the ffmpeg, x264, and MLT .DEB Installers.

You should be able to run the command "ffmpeg" or "ffplay" and have it successfully run. If ffmpeg doesn't work, MLT will segfault. If you still get an error, I would recommend running this command "sudo ldconfig".

For some reason, Ubuntu 8.10 has always given me issues with ffmpeg. So... I guess, if you can't figure it out, then you might try a VirtualBox Ubuntu 9.04 (at least to evaluate OpenShot). Good luck.