diff --git a/media-video/mplayer2/mplayer2-2.0_p20121128.ebuild b/media-video/mplayer2/mplayer2-2.0_p20121128.ebuild
index 362d41c..1100753 100644
--- a/media-video/mplayer2/mplayer2-2.0_p20121128.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/mplayer2/mplayer2-2.0_p20121128.ebuild
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ src_configure() {
 		--localedir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/locale \
 		--enable-translation \
 		${myconf} || die
+
+	MAKEOPTS+=" V=1"
 }
 
 src_compile() {
diff --git a/media-video/mplayer2/mplayer2-9999.ebuild b/media-video/mplayer2/mplayer2-9999.ebuild
index 362d41c..1100753 100644
--- a/media-video/mplayer2/mplayer2-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/mplayer2/mplayer2-9999.ebuild
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ src_configure() {
 		--localedir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/locale \
 		--enable-translation \
 		${myconf} || die
+
+	MAKEOPTS+=" V=1"
 }
 
 src_compile() {