[arch-general] aom upgrade brakes funktionality of several video applications

[Doug Newgard]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:16:03 +0200
Friedrich Strohmaier via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> Hi archers,
> 
> after one of the last upgrades aom was upgraded to version 3.0.0 several
> applications stopped working (properly).
> 
> I'm not able to play videos in my firefox browser (ok. this one ist from
> mozilla).
> 
> chromium and jami not starting at all, gnome-mplayer stops playing videos,
> handbrake is complains not finding gstreamer plugin for h264 and so forth.
> Downgrading to version 2.0.2 makes everything running as expected.
> 
> Anyone else seeing alike?
> 
> I filed a bug:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=70411
> which was closed immediately.
> 
> Reason: Not a bug
> Additional comments about closing:  Use the forums or mailing lists for support
> 
> How to proceed?

For those that aren't starting at all, check the binaries with lddtree (from the
pax-utils package), see what's linked to the old version.