@Weby: Thank you for the hint! I already removed it.

there's something broken but can't find where.. basically, gets created a symlink that points to "/home/alex/Downloads/DaVinci_Resolve_${pkgver}_Linux.zip" I've solved creating the user "alex" and giving permissions.

@cschmid bzip2 reinstated the symlink in the latest version. Remove the symlink or --overwrite it with pacman.

@cschmid, maybe you have to import videos in MJPEG format: ffmpeg -i INPUT_VIDEO.MP4 -codec:video mjpeg -q:v 3 -an OUTPUT_VIDEO.AVI

About bzip2, maybe instead of arguing on bugtracker, just edit the davinci-resolve PKGBUILD to provide that symlink?

@Weby: Thank you, that is much more elegant than downgrading. I can start the app now, however I don't see any video playback / video preview. All vidio display is simply missing.

Does anybody know how to fix that?

Apparently, bzip2 version 1.0.7 (the latest as of right now) removes the /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 symlink.

You could manually re-add it by issuing the following command : sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.7 /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1

No clue why they removed that symlink.

Be wary that in doing so, the next update of libbz2 might not work properly (you probably will need to remove the /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 file before upgrading bzip2).

As the ticket https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63101 suggests, as a temporary workaround for the "error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1: cannot open shared object file library" issue, the bzip2 library can be downgraded to libz2 1.0.6

Steps that did the trick for me:

ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg | grep bzip2

,# choose a bzip2 version prior to 1.0.7. It worked for me with 1.0.6-8, which I will use in the following command:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/bzip2-1.0.6-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

,# it should now run without an error message (only some warnings appear):

/opt/resolve/bin/resolve

@Weby: I have bzip2 installed, but thank you for your attemt to help.

However, there seems to be a regression in bzip2 1.0.7 of missing symlinks according to this recently created bugticket I just found: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63101 This ticket has been closed though in favor of this one https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63070 which has been closed too whith the argument "The soname is libbz2.so.1.0, so everything is correct here " I think this ticket needs to be reopened, as not everything is correct there.

@cschmid install bzip2.

@satriani please add bzip2 dependency.