Error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.56: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I recently ran an upgrade on my Fedora core box. All the library files got upgraded . Unfortunately, VLC player which used to run normal stopped working .
The error thrown was ‘vlc:error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.56: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory’.
What I discovered is that the file libx264.so.56 had updated to libx264.so.60. Hence, I created a soft link ln -s libx264.so.60 libx264.so.56 . This solved the issue. And VLC runs file now.
