209779 2008-02-12 07:25 0000 sys-block/seekwatcher won't make a movie unless mplayer is installed 2008-02-12 17:33:58 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds 2007.0 All Linux RESOLVED FIXED http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/ P2 minor --- 1 znmeb@cesmail.net robbat2@gentoo.org znmeb@cesmail.net 2008-02-12 07:25:20 0000 I installed seekwatcher and attempted to make a movie with it. The program croaked, saying that "--movie" was an unknown option. So I went to the web site and tried to play the movies there. They wouldn't play, so I installed "mplayer" (and its dependencies). Apparently one of those dependencies is also used by seekwatcher to make movies. So I'm thinking there's a missing dependency in the seekwatcher ebuild. But I don't know which one it is -- I might try to dig into that later. jakub@gentoo.org 2008-02-12 07:56:16 0000 (In reply to comment #0) > So I'm thinking there's a missing dependency in the seekwatcher ebuild. But I > don't know which one it is -- I might try to dig into that later. > That doesn't take too much digging... ;) http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/ <snip> seekwatcher --movie uses mencoder or png2theora to create movie files. </snip> The first one is provided by media-video/mplayer with USE=encode, the second by media-libs/libtheora with USE=examples. robbat2@gentoo.org 2008-02-12 17:33:58 0000 I added a postinst note about this. I did not put it as a dependency as they are not actually required, and they pull in a lot of stuff when you are using seekwatcher on a server.