Bugzilla Bug 159053

It contains many fixes and allows for some hi-def video codecs to work better. 
Also its needed for my attempt to stablize the new version of xine-lib.

on x86:
1: emerges ok
2: passes test suite
3: passes collision test
4: revdep-rebuild reported nothing was broken

emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6.19-gentoo-r2 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2500  @
2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw
alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix
alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty
alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks
alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa
alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter
alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null
alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route
alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol berkdb
bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri elibc_glibc ffmpeg fortran
gdbm gpm iconv input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oss pam pcre perl
ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia xorg zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157814 ***