The manpage for media-video/mplayer-1.0.20060415 has this to say: gif89a Output each frame into a single animated GIF file in the current directory. It sup- ports only RGB format with 24 bpp and the output is converted to 256 colors. <fps> Float value to specify framerate (default: 5.0). <filename> Specify the output filename (default: ./out.gif). NOTE: You must specify the framerate before the filename or the framerate will be part of the filename. EXAMPLE: mplayer video.nut -vo gif89a:fps=15.0:filename=test.gif This is incorrect as evidenced by trying to use it: mplayer -ao null -v -vo gif89a:fps=5:filename=test.gif movie.mpeg Could not parse arguments at the position indicated below: fps=5:filename=test.gif ^ -vo gif89a command line help: Example: mplayer -vo gif89a:output=file.gif:fps=4.9 Options: output=<filename> Specify the output file. The default is out.gif. fps=<rate> Specify the target framerate. The default is 5.0. Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. <filename> in the man page should be <output> --------------- Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -msse2 -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -msse2 -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo http://mirror.pacific.net.au/gentoo http://mirror.isp.net.au/ftp/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acl aim alsa apache2 apm arts asm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cscope ctype cups curl db dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomatic foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal icq idn imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libcaca libclamav libg++ libwww live lua lzo mad madwifi matroska mhash mikmod mime mmap mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia odbc ogg oggvorbis onoe openal opengl oss pam passfile pcre pdflib perl php png postgres pppd python qt quicktime readline real recode reflection rtc ruby samba scanner sdl session shared sharedmem slang sockets spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tga theroa threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Please, report this upstream, we didn't write the manpage. ;) http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_report.html
*** Bug 132777 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 132778 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks for the quick reply. Will do. :) PS: Sorry about the reposts of the bug. My fault! Hit refersh button accidentily