error while loading shared libraries: libavutil.so.49: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

what application/video player is causing this error?

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

I tried mplayer, running mplayer in terminal with "mplayer videofile(every format)" will cause this error, Even running "mplayer" alone. I also tried totem, same problem.

yes, mplayer needs to be recompiled against the newer ffmpeg. the next upload will fix this.

hmm..thank you.

This bug was fixed in the package mplayer - 2:1.0~rc3++final-0ubuntu1

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mplayer (2:1.0~rc3++final-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
  * compile against internal ffmpeg for now, LP: #587203, #588097
  * recompile for directfb transtion, LP: #587163
  * remove patches that were merged upstream
  * avoid removing DOCS/html directory. it is included in release
    tarball
  * convert to source Format: 3.0 (quilt)
  * refreshed patches
  * remove files that are included in upstream tarball
  * rework debian/rules file
    - support parallel building
    - merge build rules for mplayer and mencoder package
    - remove unreferenced COMMON_CONFIGURE_FLAGS macro
    - rename DEB_BUILD_CONFIGURE -> CONFIGURE_FLAGS
    - don't build documentation - release tarballs have them prebuilt
    - build HTML documentation only if not already avaiable in the build
      tree
    - remove remaining references to debian/strip.sh from debian/rules
  * remove copied vdpau headers

mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * copy in mencoder.c from upstream
  * enable mplayer-gui (Closes: #579925) and mencoder packages.
    (Closes: #396954, #400940, #580168)

mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-3) medium; urgency=low

  * Fix rtsp vulnerability. Patch applied by DSA. Closes: #581245
  * Fix another integer overflow, Closes: #524805
  * prepare new upload
  * sync libao2/ao_pulse.c with svn r30062, Closes: #558196, #580113
  * make configure use pkg-config for fribidi checks. Closes: #582784,
    LP: #556200
  * document 23mplayer-debug-printf.patch
  * avoid mentioning of GTK frontend in mplayer description
  * improve package descriptions of mplayer-doc and mplayer-dbg
  * medium urgency because of fixed security issue
  * fix SVN_VERION regex in debian rules to unbreak get-orig-source
    target. Closes: #582369
  * forcefully disable arts support. Closes: #581225

mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove mencoder from Depends in mplayer-dbg package.

mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream snapshot from rc3 branch.
  * remove patches applied upstream:

    - 24_enable_fontconfig_by_default.diff
    - 30_add_gmplayer_man_rules.diff
    - 40_improve_desktop_file.patch
    - 41_fix_forcedsubsonly.patch
    - 50_fix_crashes_with_invalid_SDPs.patch
    - 50_fix_initial_volume_setting_pulse_output.patch
    - 61-malloc-bsd.patch
    - 62-disable-vidix-on-kfreebsd-amd64.patch
    - 63-sys-kd-include.patch

mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * don't install apport hook
  * gross hack to avoid building mplayer-nogui and mplayer-gui packages
  * add md5sum to remove to avoid spurious conffile prompt, Closes: #568272
  * Make mplayer build on kFreeBSD (backports from upstream), Closes: #578622
    - Revert obscure hack that disables the malloc.h check on certain BSD
      platforms.
    - disable vidix on kFreeBSD-amd64
    - rename 'struct keypad' -> 'struct m_keypad' to avoid FTBFS on
      kFreeBSD/amd64
 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:59:06 +0200

same problem with TOTEM

(totem:4950): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so': libavutil.so.49: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

with maverick alpha1