Although media-video/mplayer-1.3.0-r5 compiles w/ ffmpeg-4 (but see bug 655442) the mencoder program built is practically broken since it completely lacks support for lavc. For the user this manifests as described here: https://superuser.com/questions/1283357/lavc-not-found-when-using-mencoder The only reasonable workaround seems to use a newer svn snapshot of mplayer (see also the above link).
So... time for a snapshot?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=dd8a1b7a0928465e051bf18cd139efc16259e9b5 commit dd8a1b7a0928465e051bf18cd139efc16259e9b5 Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-11-06 11:20:15 +0000 Commit: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-11-06 11:20:34 +0000 media-video/mplayer: backport upstream fix for ffmpeg4 + mencoder. No revbump as ffmpeg4 is masked. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/658128 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.51, Repoman-2.3.12 Signed-off-by: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> .../files/mplayer-1.3-ffmpeg4+mencoder.patch | 360 +++++++++++++++++++++ media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.3.0-r5.ebuild | 2 +- 2 files changed, 361 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
