Devede won't start in Jaunty. Error message: Need Mencoder & Mplayer (Both installed from repositories)

try:

sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get --purge remove devede; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install devede

Tried it, and problem persists. Error message: "Can't find the following programs: Mplayer, Mencoder (Both installed and working as I tested them). Devede needs them to work. If you want to run devede you must install all these programs". I even tried a complete remove/uninstall of the mentioned packages through Synaptic (Mencoder, Mplayer, Devede) to no avail...

try running devede from terminal, the outputs should prove useful

Here's the output when ran from terminal:
(My preset language is spanish I'll try to translate it so it makes sense...)

DeVeDe 3.12c
Locale: es_CO.UTF-8
Using package-installed files
/home/necrobutcher/
entering fonts
exiting fonts
/home/necrobutcher/
Temp Directory is: /var/tmp
home load: /home/necrobutcher/.devede
line: video_format:ntsc

line: temp_folder:/var/tmp/

line: multicore:1

line:

That's it, the last "line:" is empty as shown.

The terminal launches Devede only to show the same error message already posted.
Running Jaunty i386, on a 1300 Mghz P4, 370Megs ram, 32 meg Nvidia MX2.
GNOME 2.26.1, Linux 2.6.28-11-generic.
All updates up to date.
Devede worked just fine when I had Hardy Heron installed, hadn't used on Jaunty till now.
I've been using Jaunty for several months up to now.
No other software or hardware related problems (besides Jaunty freezing every time I empty my trash bin...)
Kernel Linux 2.6.28-13 didn't work on my installation so I'm using 2.6.28-11.

Thanks.

ok what is the output of:

which mencoder
which mplayer

Shoudl give something like this:

andy@fileserver:~$ which mencoder
/usr/bin/mencoder
andy@fileserver:~$ which mplayer
/usr/bin/mplayer

Can you please paste your output.

Thanks

Posting output to which mencoder + mplayer:

necrobutcher@necrobutcher-desktop:~$ sudo which mencoder
/usr/local/bin/mencoder

necrobutcher@necrobutcher-desktop:~$ sudo which mencoder
/usr/local/bin/mencoder

There you go, thanks...

ok can you do it WITHOUT sudo. Root may have different paths to your user. Not all terminal commands need sudo and you WILL break your system if you do use sudo for every terminal command.

Please give the output of:

which mencoder
which mplayer

Thanks

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SOLUTION.
I use Ubuntu 9.10
I had the same problem.
When i installed ffmpeg it unistalls devede and reverse, so i did this

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg2theora
sudo apt-get install libavcodec52
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-video

Install from .deb from web author not from apt-get
http://www.rastersoft.com/descargas/devede_3.14.0-0~rastersoft1_all.deb
If there is a newer version just download it and isntall it.

Suerte!!!

SOLUTION.
I use Ubuntu 9.10
I had the same problem.
When i installed ffmpeg it unistalls devede and reverse, so i did this

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg2theora
sudo apt-get install libavcodec52
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-video

Now install DEVEDE
Install from .deb from web author not from apt-get
http://www.rastersoft.com/descargas/devede_3.14.0-0~rastersoft1_all.deb
If there is a newer version just download it and isntall it.

Suerte!!!