ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.55: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Error:

I faced following error after installing ffmpeg on our CentOS 6.5 server.

ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.55: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution:

In my case this issue comes, when we don’t not added codecs libraries path in ldconfig. I have fixed it by adding following entries in /etc/ld.so.conf.

# vim /etc/ld.so.conf

include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
/usr/lib
/usr/local/lib

Save file and run command

# ldconfig

All working now.