Fully upgraded and rebooted:

[root@wishmacer andrzejl]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
[root@wishmacer andrzejl]#

Smplayer refuses to play videos. Mplayer log throws this message:

/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -v -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo xv:adaptor=0 -ao alsa -nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 30 -mc 0.3 -dr -double -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 39845995 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/andrzejl/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp CP1250 -subpos 100 -volume 100 -cache 2048 -osdlevel 0 -idx -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo -softvol -softvol-max 110 -nocorrect-pts

/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libquvi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On another machine (clone of this machine) smplayer + mplayer works just fine. On this machine I have changed mplayer to mplayer 2 - and it fails to play videos.

[root@wishmacer andrzejl]# pacman -Ss libquvi
extra/libquvi 0.9.3-1 [installed]
Library for parsing video download links.
extra/libquvi-scripts 0.9.20130903-2 [installed]
Library for parsing video download links.
[root@wishmacer andrzejl]# pacman -S libquvi libquvi-scripts
warning: libquvi-0.9.3-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: libquvi-scripts-0.9.20130903-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (2): libquvi-0.9.3-1 libquvi-scripts-0.9.20130903-2

Total Installed Size: 0.24 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(2/2) checking keys in keyring [##############################################] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity [##############################################] 100%
(2/2) loading package files [##############################################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [##############################################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space [##############################################] 100%
(1/2) reinstalling libquvi-scripts [##############################################] 100%
(2/2) reinstalling libquvi [##############################################] 100%
[root@wishmacer andrzejl]# updatedb
[root@wishmacer andrzejl]# locate libquvi
/usr/lib/libquvi-0.9-0.9.3.so
/usr/lib/libquvi-0.9.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libquvi-0.9.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libquvi-scripts-0.9.pc
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/playlist
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/scan
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/subtitle
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/util
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/version
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/const.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/debug.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/entity.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/hash.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/hex.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/html.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/http
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/lxph.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/stream.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/time.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/util.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/youtube.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/common/quvi/http/cookie.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/101greatgoals.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/ardmediathek.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/arte.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/audioboo.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/bikeradar.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/cbsnews.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/clipfish.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/dailymotion.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/funnyordie.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/gaskrank.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/guardian.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/liveleak.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/publicsenat.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/sapo.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/senat.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/sevenload.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/soundcloud.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/spiegel.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/ted.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/theonion.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/tvlux.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/videa.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/vimeo.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/media/youtube.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/playlist/soundcloud.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/playlist/youtube.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/scan/youtube.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/subtitle/export
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/subtitle/youtube.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/subtitle/export/subrip.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/util/convert_entities.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/util/resolve_redirections.lua
/usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9.20130903/util/to_file_ext.lua
/usr/share/man/man3/libquvi.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/libquvi-scripts.7.gz
[root@wishmacer andrzejl]# locate libquvi.so.7
[root@wishmacer andrzejl]# locate libquvi.so
[root@wishmacer andrzejl]#

Replacing mplayer2 with mplayer works around the issue.

[root@wishmacer andrzejl]# pacman -S mplayer
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: mplayer and mplayer2 are in conflict. Remove mplayer2? [y/N] y

Packages (2): mplayer2-20130428-4 [removal] mplayer-36285-4

Total Download Size: 5.40 MiB
Total Installed Size: 14.62 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 12.19 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages ...
mplayer-36285-4-i686 5.4 MiB 980K/s 00:06 [##############################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [##############################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [##############################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [##############################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [##############################################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space [##############################################] 100%
(1/1) removing mplayer2 [##############################################] 100%
(1/1) installing mplayer [##############################################] 100%
[root@wishmacer andrzejl]#

It works now.

Cheers.

Andrzej