libavformat.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Jinsung-L]

[mpris] C plugin error: 'libavformat.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'
[mpris] Could not load SO plugin /home/jinsung/snap/mpv/50/.config/mpv/scripts/mpris.so

OS: Ubuntu 23.04 x86_64

'ffmpeg' is installed with apt and 'mpv' is installed with snap.

It seems like my system has installed 'libavformat59'.

$ whereis libavformat.so.59
libavformat.so.59: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavformat.so.59

Any solution or workarounds?

[akashpal-21]

+1 Debian 12 same error!!!

[akashpal-21]

+1 Debian 12 same error!!!

I got it working by installing the plugin from the repo!

[hoyon]

Are you using the version from the GitHub releases page? That's the version built in GitHub Actions which uses Ubuntu 22.04 which must be using an older version of libavformat.

Maybe it'd be better to use static linking for the direct download version while versions in distros repos can continue to use shared linking which will presumably be rebuilt whenever libavformat is updated.

[JustMaris]

I'm using Manjaro 23.1.0 and checking the ffmpeg package, it says that libavformat dependency is 60-64. Can't find the specific version, but it seems to be above 58 for sure.

[limaceous-bushwhacker]

+1, same issue on LMDE.

EDIT: Package mpv-mpris from Debian repositories seem to work fine.

[revulent]

I built it and linked it for libavformat 0:7.0.2 (fedora 41) so this might work for people having this issue who can't compile it themselves but if you have the package available from your distro's package manager you should use that
https://files.catbox.moe/o21b6w.so