VLC compiled by portage has no potion to show mouse pointer during screen capturing: --screen-mouse-image=<string> But in source code this option is listed. Seems like source configureation issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge vlc $ vlc --screen-mouse-image=someimg.png Actual Results: vlc: unknown option or missing mandatory argument `--screen-mouse-image' Expected Results: vlc should accept this argument and show image in mouse pointer position media-video/vlc-1.1.11 USE="X a52 aac alsa avahi dbus dc1394 dirac dts dvd fbcon ffmpeg flac gcrypt gnutls httpd ieee1394 jack libnotify lirc matroska mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin ogg opengl oss png pulseaudio qt4 sdl sdl-image shout speex sse stream svg theora truetype v4l v4l2 vaapi vlm vorbis x264 xcb xml xv -aalib (-altivec) -atmo -bidi -cdda -cddb -debug -directfb -dvb -fluidsynth -fontconfig -ggi -gme -gnome -id3tag -kate -kde -libass -libcaca -libproxy -libtiger -libv4l -libv4l2 -live -lua -modplug -mtp -musepack -optimisememory -projectm -pvr -remoteosd -rtsp -run-as-root -samba -schroedinger -shine -skins -sqlite (-svga) -taglib -twolame -udev -upnp -vcdx (-win32codecs) -wma-fixed -xosd -zvbi" = emerge --info = Portage 2.1.10.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.32-gentoo-r24 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r24-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9550_Quad-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.2-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo dottout spring x-my_overlay x-webcamstudio sunrise proaudio pd-overlay roslin voip ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mtune=amdfam10 -march=amdfam10 -m3dnow -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -msse4a -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -funsafe-math-optimizations -msseregparm -ffast-math" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mtune=amdfam10 -march=amdfam10 -m3dnow -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -msse4a -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -funsafe-math-optimizations -msseregparm -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch parallel-install protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror2.corbina.ru/gentoo-distfiles/" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/dottout /var/lib/layman/Spring /usr/local/portage/my_overlay /usr/local/portage/webcamstudio /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage/layman/pd-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/roslin /usr/local/portage/layman/voip" SYNC="rsync://rsync2.ru.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 amr avahi berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dga dirac dlloader dmx dri dts dv dvd dvdread encode exif faac faad fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran fuse gdbm ggi gif gimp gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk iconv ieee1394 imagemagick ipv6 jabber jack joystick jpeg jpeg2k ladspa lame lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate lirc logrotate lv2 mad matroska mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mmx mmxext modules mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc ogg openal openexr opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf png policykit postscript pppd pulseaudio python qt3support quicktime readline sdl session slang sndfile sox speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vaapi vdpau video vim-syntax vorbis vpx x264 xine xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="joystick wacom mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Not really a configuration issue, more a result of a policy - vlc upstream tends to remove source of no longer built plugins with a significant delay after actually disabling the build. Such option is no longer available in the new screen capture plugin.
thanks. Closing bug.
