As you can see below, mplayer won't compile with x254-svn-20051004-r1 installed. Unmerging it fixes this. Maybe we want to explicitly disable x264 support in mplayer's configure (through mplayer ebuild), until it works again? ----- [...] In file included from ve_qtvideo.c:20: ../loader/qtx/qtxsdk/components.h: In function `dump_CodecDecompressParams': ../loader/qtx/qtxsdk/components.h:724: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type cc -c -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O4 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFIL E_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/ usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I. -Inative -I.. -I../libmpdemux - I../loader -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/includ e -D_GNU_SOURCE -o ve_nuv.o ve_nuv.c cc -c -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O4 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFIL E_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/ usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I. -Inative -I.. -I../libmpdemux - I../loader -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/includ e -D_GNU_SOURCE -o ve_x264.o ve_x264.c ve_x264.c: In function `config': ve_x264.c:141: error: structure has no member named `i_idrframe' ve_x264.c:142: error: structure has no member named `i_iframe' ve_x264.c:197: error: structure has no member named `i_rc_buffer_size' ve_x264.c:198: error: structure has no member named `i_rc_init_buffer' ve_x264.c:199: error: structure has no member named `i_rc_sens' ve_x264.c: In function `put_image': ve_x264.c:306: error: too few arguments to function `x264_encoder_encode' make[1]: *** [ve_x264.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r6/work/MPlayer-1. 0pre6a/libmpcodecs' make: *** [libmpcodecs/libmpcodecs.a] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 506, Exitcode 2
Same problem here. The only package besides Mplayer that pulls in x264-svn is cinelerra-cvs, which is interesting because libx264 is omitted even from the VLC ebuild (where it would certainly feel at home) "due to needed testing". I don't know what you mean by "recent versions", since x264-svn was only just introduced to Portage, with -20051004-r1 its initial import, but I'd expect that the canonical way to go about this is to introduce an H264 USE flag, right?
A workaround is described here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-377690.html
x264 is explicitly disabled.
