CentOS 8 & HandBrakeCLI

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Since I upgraded to CentOS8, I cannot get HandBrakeCLI to work:

# HandBrakeCLI
HandBrakeCLI: error while loading shared libraries: libass.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Googling this, it appears the error message is related to ffmpeg, but I
don’t get any error message with it:

# ffmpeg ffmpeg version 4.2.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 8 (GCC)
  configuration: –prefix=/usr –bindir=/usr/bin
–datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg –docdir=/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg
–incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg –libdir=/usr/lib64 –mandir=/usr/share/man
–arch=x86_64 –optflags=’-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions
-fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches
-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1
-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection’
–extra-ldflags=’-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now
-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld ‘ –extra-cflags=’ ‘
–enable-libopencore-amrnb –enable-libopencore-amrwb
–enable-libvo-amrwbenc –enable-version3 –enable-bzlib
–disable-crystalhd –enable-fontconfig –enable-frei0r –enable-gcrypt
–enable-gnutls –enable-ladspa –enable-libaom –enable-libdav1d
–enable-libass –enable-libbluray –enable-libcdio –enable-libdrm
–enable-libjack –enable-libfreetype –enable-libfribidi
–enable-libgsm –enable-libmp3lame –enable-nvenc –enable-openal
–enable-opencl –enable-opengl –enable-libopenjpeg –enable-libopus
–enable-libpulse –enable-librsvg –enable-libsrt –enable-libsoxr
–enable-libspeex –enable-libssh –enable-libtheora –enable-libvorbis
–enable-libv4l2 –enable-libvidstab –enable-libvmaf –enable-version3
–enable-libvpx –enable-libx264 –enable-libx265 –enable-libxvid
–enable-libzimg –enable-libzvbi –enable-avfilter –enable-avresample
–enable-libmodplug –enable-postproc –enable-pthreads –disable-static
–enable-shared –enable-gpl –disable-debug –disable-stripping
–shlibdir=/usr/lib64 –enable-libmfx –enable-runtime-cpudetect
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]… {[outfile options] outfile}…

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run ‘man ffmpeg’

…it is correct that I don’t have a .5:

# ls /usr/lib64/libass*
/usr/lib64/libass.so  /usr/lib64/libass.so.9 /usr/lib64/libass.so.9.0.2 
/usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0 /usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0.8.1

Ideas?

5 thoughts on - CentOS 8 & HandBrakeCLI

  • So libass.so.9 is installed, but the program needs libass.so.5 – this leads to the error you see.

    Consider running ldd `which HandBrakeCLI` | grep -i found which might show you which other libraries are missing.

    If it’s only libass.so.5, potentially a symlink ln -s libass.so.9 libass.so.5
    in /usr/lib64 would do the trick, but the difference in version numbers appears large. Maybe it matters, maybe not.

    I’d also try to update HandBrakeCLI ; a later version might make use of libass.so.9 .

    HTH, Kay

  • I could not get HandBrake to work under CentOS 8, so I installed it under Zorin 15 (an Ubuntu-derived German distro). There, it works great. I
    did not try any of the other distros derived from Debian or Ubuntu itself.

    Todd Merriman Software Tooolz, Inc.

  • HandBrakeCLI (and ghb – the GUI) at least starts without error on CentOS 8 as installed from rpmfusion.  I haven’t actually used it.

    I suggest you look at ‘rpm -qi $(which HandBrakeCLI)’ to show you where you got your handbrake from and possibly update it from there.  Perhaps you disabled some repos?

  • HandBrake-1.3.3-1.el8 and HandBrake-gui from RPM Fusion work fine on CentOS-Stream 8. Haven’t tried on CentOS 8.

    Tony

  • Indeed : what I have on my CentOS 8 laptop too and no issue :

    HandBrake-1.3.3-1.el8.x86_64
    HandBrake-gui-1.3.3-1.el8.x86_64