Ubuntu 22.04: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so.61

[profhccaesar]

• Video2x-Release:
  6.2.0
• Installation package:
  video2x-linux-ubuntu2204-amd64.deb
• Operating System:
  Ubuntu 22.04

Error message when starting video2x:

video2x: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so.61: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" doesn't provide libavcodec.so.61, it just provides libavcodec.so.58. See "Package libavcodec-extra".

Seems that the package file video2x-linux-ubuntu2204-amd64.deb wasn't compiled with the correct environment / system.

[k4yt3x]

It's compiled correctly and this is the intended behavior. FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22 is too old and doesn't come with components like libplacebo enabled, so I built it with the FFmpeg in ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/ffmpeg7. It's not very well documented mostly because the only reason that I have a Ubuntu 22 build is because Colab is Ubuntu 22.

Regardless, this package will be deprecated and replaced by the flatpak package that will come out soon. If you want to use it now, install the ffmpeg from ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/ffmpeg7.