UPDATED: Newest x265 & x264 causing issue with ZM recording?

[wallacebw]

Arch user here:

Setup:

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OS:         Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel:     5.11.10-arch1-1
ZoneMinder  v1.34.23.

Issue:
I updated my system and ZMC appears to break (maybe only ffmpeg-passthrough)?

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sudo zmc -m 2
zmc: error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.160: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Stop-Gap Solution:
After troubleshooting, I have narrowed it down to these packages (which change the library version of x264 / x265 or have downstream issues with PHP GD

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Name    |  Version                  |  Notes 
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ffmpeg  |  2:4.3.2-5                |  has dependencies on newer x264 / x265
libheif |  1.11.0-2                 |  this version made php GD look for libx265.so.199 (aka 3.5.1)
x264    |  3:0.161.r3039.544c61f-1  |  Source of the problem?
x265    |  3.5-1                    |  Source of the problem?
dav1d   |  0.8.2-1                  |  Source of the problem?

I have rolled back to the following versions fixing the issues:

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Name	|  Version   
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ffmpeg	|  2:4.3.2-2 
libheif	|  1.11.0-1
x264 	|  3:0.160.r3011.cde9a93-1
x265	|  3.4-1
dav1d   |  0.8.1-2

Question / Request:

Not being familiar with the ZM code, it appears that it is referencing a specific library version of x264 / x265. Is that in-fact the case? Is it a requirement and if so, what needs to be done to support newer libraries?

Thanks,
Brian

[wallacebw]

updated initial post with all details.

[Bluemax]

Thanks for sharing your experiences. It would be helpful to know what system/os you are running.

[iconnor]

ZM links against whatever library was present when built. So if you remove that ZM won't be able to find it. You can probably symlink it

[wallacebw]

Update:

Updated 1st post to add dav1d to the package list.

Tried a few more things:

• Symlink didn't work. it looks like the function call references the version (sorry didn't capture the message)
• Recompile failed (see link below to AUR for other examples)
  • fully updated the system (ffmpeg / x264 / x265 / libheif)
  • reboot (new kernel too)
  • recompile: yay -S zoneminder --answerclean yes --answerdiff none
    ERROR:
    76%] Built target zmonvifproxy
    make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
    ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
• had to downgrade dav1d to 0.8.1-2 as well.

Looks like this has hit several people: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zoneminder

Yeah, I know a rolling release as a server... FYI: I'm using arch because I needed ZFSonLinux GIT to setup DRAID. I have a 24 disk draid2:5d:22c:1s + 2 SSD Special device mirror and don't even want to think about having to migrate that data to rebuild it when 2.1 is released.

Let me know if there is anything else you want me to test.

Brian