Bug 22865 – MPlayer 0.90-r1 looks for Real codecs at wrong path

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Steven Wilson 2003-06-15 06:59:05 UTC]

When attempting to play a RealMedia file with MPlayer, MPlayer looks for the
RealMedia DLLs at /usr/lib/win32//usr/lib/real instead of /usr/lib/win32:

Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening shared obj '/usr/lib/real/cook.so.6.0'
Error: /usr/lib/real/cook.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
opening win32 dll '/usr/lib/real/cook.so.6.0'
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: /usr/lib/real/cook.so.6.0,
/usr/lib/win32//usr/lib/real/cook.so.6.0,
/usr/local/lib/win32//usr/lib/real/cook.so.6.0
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook.so.6.0.
Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS!
ADecoder preinit failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
*** Try to upgrade /home/excyber/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6B6F6F63.
==========================================================================
SDL: Using driver: x11
Disabling DPMS
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
opening shared obj '/usr/lib/real/drv2.so.6.0'
Error: /usr/lib/real/drv2.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
opening win32 dll '/usr/lib/real/drv2.so.6.0'
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: /usr/lib/real/drv2.so.6.0,
/usr/lib/win32//usr/lib/real/drv2.so.6.0,
/usr/local/lib/win32//usr/lib/real/drv2.so.6.0
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv2.so.6.0.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
opening shared obj '/usr/lib/real/drv23260.dll'
Error: /usr/lib/real/drv23260.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
opening win32 dll '/usr/lib/real/drv23260.dll'
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: /usr/lib/real/drv23260.dll,
/usr/lib/win32//usr/lib/real/drv23260.dll,
/usr/local/lib/win32//usr/lib/real/drv23260.dll
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv23260.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(

Other Win32 codecs are loaded correctly; this problem only seems to affect
RealMedia. However, I wasn't able to locate anything in the Mplayer
configuration files that would make it search the incorrect path.

[Comment 1 bugs 2003-07-01 21:39:05 UTC]

I believe the actual problem is that the real codecs aren't even installed.
You can download them here:
ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
Or, as part of the official Real download, it is under codecs.
However, there doesn't seem to be an ebuild.
Simple enough to install.  download real8 and real9, and place them in /usr/lib/real

Could really use an ebuild, though.

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-08-04 14:15:38 UTC]

We have media-video/realplayer, and the mplayer ebuild supports it.