[mythtv-users] OT - can't run mplayer

[James Pifer]

Sorry for the OT, but searching google and archives didn't show much. I
loaded mplayer using: apt-get install mplayer. 

It seemed to load fine, but I can't start mplayer. I get an error:
[root at mythtv root]# mplayer
mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libxvidcore.so.2: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root at mythtv root]#

The xvidcore package got installed, and there is a libxvidcore.so.2.1 in
the /usr/lib directory, but not libxvidcore.so.2. 

Any suggestions?
Thanks,
James