When compiling dev-php/ffmpeg-php the option "ffmpeg-php gd support" is always disabled because this check: checking whether to force gd support in ffmpeg-php... no You can enable it by specifying EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-skip-gd-check" emerge -av dev-php/ffmpeg-php After that you´ll have ffmpeg gd support in your php installation: checking whether to force gd support in ffmpeg-php... yes php-fpm -i|grep ffm Additional .ini files parsed => /etc/php/fpm-php5.5/ext-active/ffmpeg.ini, ffmpeg-php version => 0.6.0-svn ffmpeg-php built on => Jan 14 2016 10:52:19 ffmpeg-php gd support => enabled Suggested solution: Add a use flag for gd support, which seems to be pretty common in case of image or video manipulation.
Since ffmpeg-php is on its way out, this won't get fixed -- sorry! # Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> (09 Dec 2016) # Masked for removal, wrt bug 602164. # See https://github.com/PHP-FFMpeg/PHP-FFMpeg for a code based replacement dev-php/ffmpeg-php