[MPlayer-users] mplayer won't start: can't find libx264.so.60

[Craig Whitmore]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andrew" <andrew.david.45 at gmail.com>
To: "Mplayer-Users" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:44 AM
Subject: [MPlayer-users] mplayer won't start: can't find libx264.so.60


> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem with mplayer svn 27137 and the latest git x264.
> After compiling mplayer I get the following message on startup:
> 
> mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.60: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory

Either compile x264 with

--prefix=/usr

or edit /etc/ld.so.conf and add in /usr/local/lib and run ldconfig

Thanks