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on debian sid I installed libfaad2 , I have


bit really xbmc doesn't use libfaad2 - it uses libfaad0


how can I indicate to xbmc to use libfaad.so (libfaad2) - not libfaad.so.0 ?

You can try
ln /usr/lib/libfaad.so.2 /usr/lib/libfaad.so.0

yes, I know about such workaround - will do like this.

But is it right way ? No need to fix any xbmc code ?

If you complied it yourself, that is what it was linked against.

actually not quite true. we have a hardcoded reference in DllPaths_generated.h which apparently does not work for sid. you can change it there if you compile.

JackieBrown Wrote:If you complied it yourself, that is what it was linked against.

No.
I have installed libfaad2 from deb pakage
http://packages.debian.org/sid/libfaad2

spiff already gave the work around

I did it without the workaround and did the sym link afterwards to get rid of the error. But the copy I complied before the sym link worked fine.

I enable all but python for external libaries so that may have made the difference.

Sorry to bump an old thread but I've had the same problem with libfaad and it is a bit subtle to detect because audio will work nonetheless, but features such as stereo downmix won't and no message is displayed on screen to warn the user of that.

spiff Wrote:we have a hardcoded reference in DllPaths_generated.h which apparently does not work for sid. you can change it there if you compile.

Is this something the XBMC team should take care of? ir is this up to the dmo maintainer?

TIA