mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags

[Daniel Bair]

Symptom:
mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags

Indication:
check the version string of the libavutil package. If it contains the string 'ppa', 'tj~ppa' or similar, or if you have the package libavutil50 (instead of libavutil49) installed, then you are affected.

Workaround:
remove libavutil50

Solution:
none, this problem is caused by 3rd part packages.

DO NOT REOPEN THIS BUG!

Original Report:
Binary package hint: mplayer

When I try to run mplayer all I get is...
mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags

This is on Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 AMD64 with openshot installed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 27 10:11:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 libavcodec52 N/A
 libavcodec-extra-52 4:0.5+svn20090926-0ubuntu3~tj~ppa1k
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserConf: # Write your default config options here!
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.31-14-generic

[Daniel Bair (danielbair)]

dpkg -l vlc mplayer ffmpeg libavformat52
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
rc ffmpeg 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 multimedia player, server and encoder
rc libavformat52 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 ffmpeg file format library
ii mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10 movie player for Unix-like systems

[Daniel Bair (danielbair)]

dpkg -l vlc mplayer ffmpeg libavformat52
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
rc ffmpeg 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 multimedia player, server and encoder
rc libavformat52 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 ffmpeg file format library
ii mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10 movie player for Unix-like systems
ii vlc 1.0.2-1ubuntu2 multimedia player and streamer

[Daniel Bair (danielbair)]

dpkg -l openshot openshot-ffmpeg
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
ii openshot 0.9.52 OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source, non-linear video editor, based on Python, GTK, and MLT. I
ii openshot-ffmpeg git-2623d8f-1 Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Daniel Bair <email address hidden> writes:

> libavcodec-extra-52 4:0.5+svn20090926-0ubuntu3~tj~ppa1k

This package is breaking your mplayer package.

From which PPA did you get this package?

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[Daniel Bair (danielbair)]

I expect that would be the openshot ppa, which I disabled earlier do to it
preventing me from upgrading.

-Daniel

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden>wrote:

> Daniel Bair <email address hidden> writes:
>
> > libavcodec-extra-52 4:0.5+svn20090926-0ubuntu3~tj~ppa1k
>
> This package is breaking your mplayer package.
>
> >From which PPA did you get this package?
>
>
> --
> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
>
> --
> mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/461966
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

ic. thanks for reporting back.

[manuti (manuti)]

Is Invalid or not confirmed.

I have the same bug when I try to run mplayer all I get is...
mplayer: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags

In my case is on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 AMD64 without openshot installed.

[Deleted User (usuario-borrado)]

I have the same bug when I try to run mencoder.

mencoder: symbol lookup error: mencoder: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags

I'm on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 32bits.

I think this bug went after upgrading mplayer with Nvidia Vdpau PPA: https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa

[larmahunter (charrah)]

I have the same bug for- it happened when I made an upgrade 2 or 3 days ago. I have been using the nVidia VDPAU PPA version of mplayer for a long time without problems.

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

I've suscribed the Nvidia Vdpau Team to this bug since it seems to be related to their PPA.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

the version number looks rather like the package from the openshot archive, not the nvidia vdpau team.

[Deleted User (usuario-borrado)]

Hello again, I don't have openshot installed and I have the same bug with mencoder. My versions:

iarrovawo@iarrovawo-portatil:~$ dpkg -l vlc mplayer ffmpeg libavformat52 mencoder
Deseado=Desconocido/Instalar/Eliminar/Purgar/Mantener
| Estado=No/Inst/Archivos Cfg/Desempaquetado/Cfg fallido/Medio-inst/Espera/Pediente
|/ Error?=(Nada)/Requiere reinstalación (Estado,Error: Mayúsculas=mal)
||/ Nombre Versión Descripción
+++-=======================================-=======================================-==============================================================================================
ii ffmpeg 5:0.5+svn20091116-0.4 audio/video encoder, streaming server & audio/video file converter
ii libavformat52 5:0.5+svn20091116-0.4 ffmpeg file format library
ii mencoder 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090620~karmic~ppa4 MPlayer's Movie Encoder
un mplayer <ninguna> (no hay ninguna descripción disponible)
ii vlc 1.0.3-1~ppa1 multimedia player and streamer

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Iago Laz <email address hidden> writes:

> ii ffmpeg 5:0.5+svn20091116-0.4 audio/video encoder, streaming server & audio/video file converter

from where did you get that package? I guess that libavcodec52 comes
from the same package, which causes the issue you are experiencing..

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[Deleted User (usuario-borrado)]

iarrovawo@iarrovawo-portatil:~$ apt-cache policy ffmpeg
ffmpeg:
  Instalados: 5:0.5+svn20091116-0.4
  Candidato: 5:0.5+svn20091116-0.4
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 5:0.5+svn20091116-0.4 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

[Deleted User (usuario-borrado)]

Fixed for me. I remove with ppa-purge (https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/ppa-purge_0.2.5_all.deb - sudo ppa-purge ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn) https://launchpad.net/~matthaeus123/+archive/mrw-gimp-svn and then I install mencoder for Ubuntu PPA (sudo apt-get install mencoder=2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10).

It works perfect now.

[larmahunter (charrah)]

I don't think it has anything to do with the nVidia PPA; I fixed it by removing all the other PPAs and reinstalling ffmpeg and mplayer related packages.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

I've too got this problem. I had Openshot installed, but removed it completely and it still doesn't work. I tried reinstalling many times, and reinstalling the ffmpeg and gstreamer libraries - but no cigar.

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

Try using the ppa-purge tool Iago used to purge the openshot ppa.

--
Jorge Suárez de Lis

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Jorge Suárez de Lis <email address hidden> writes:

> Try using the ppa-purge tool Iago used to purge the openshot ppa.

'apt-get remove libavutil50' should fix the mess as well.

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[Rafał Cieślak (rafalcieslak256)]

I get this bug every time I run mplayer, but it happens only since I upgraded to 10.04 alpha 1.

[Masiosare (luis-zaldivar)]

I've got this error after upgrade to kde beta compilation 1

http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu

which installs libavcodec52 version 5.0.5

[Kamil Páral (kamil.paral)]

I never installed openshot, I don't use nvidia team repos, still I have this problem too. Setting to Confirmed.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

this is a typical symptom for having an updated ffmpeg package installed. this is *not* a bug in mplayer

[Kamil Páral (kamil.paral)]

Oh, going through my conscience I realized I really had openshot installed some time in the past. After purging all the bit remaining from it in the system the mplayer works again. Sorry for confusions.

[concord (frank-swflug)]

This started happening to me after I installed OpenShot using packages from their website. I've since used Synaptic to "completely remove" anything with OpenShot in the name (one of the packages was openshot-ffmpeg) and the problem has disappeared.

works fine now

concord@Lenovo-Linux:~/Documents$ for i in *.WMA; do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm:waveheader:file="${i%.WMA}.wav" "$i" ; done
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing WS500136.WMA.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16002->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
[AO PCM] File: WS500136.wav (WAVE)
PCM: Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
[AO PCM] Info: Faster dumping is achieved with -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast
[AO PCM] Info: To write WAVE files use -ao pcm:waveheader (default).
AO: [pcm] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:2201.7 (36:41.7) of 2201.0 (36:41.0) 0.5%

Exiting... (End of file)
concord@Lenovo-Linux:~/Documents$

[Jonathan Lumb (jonolumb)]

Iago Laz - thank you so much, your solution worked for me:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn

Also - for good measure, I also used the above method to remove the Nvidia Vdpau PPA repository.

[Nathan (lidzhu)]

I have same problem with mplayer, i try reinstall all stuff for mplayer or somethings. but can't works.
The last way success, when i remove all ppa source list in my sources.list file, apt-get update, then reinstall mplayer and related stuff, it works for me.
hope can help others. :)

libswscale0 install
smplayer-themes install
smplayer-translations install
mplayer install
libpostproc51 install
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse install
mencoder install
libavformat52 install
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg install
vlc-nox install
ffmpeg install
libavfilter0 install
smplayer install
vlc install
mozilla-mplayer install
libavcodec52 install
libmjpegtools-1.9 install
vlc-plugin-pulse install
libquicktime1 install
mplayer-nogui install
libavdevice52 install

store them in synaptic.txt file and load it from synaptic package manager then click apply button.

[donn (lazer-wulf)]

(am useing LinuxMint 9.10) had the same problem with ffmpeg + MPlayer not working with DeVeDe, don't know if this will help you guys but after I reinstall MPlayer from:

https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/mplayer

all works now :)