Bug 830670 – media-video/mplayer-9999 libavcodec/bsf.h file cannot be found

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description email200202 2022-01-06 07:56:18 UTC]

media-video/mplayer-9999 failed to build with 
the error message:
Checking for the presence of libavutil/wchar_filename.h...
Moving and checking file: libavformat/internal.h
Checking for the presence of libavcodec/avcodec.h...
Checking for the presence of libavcodec/bsf.h...
Header depends on libavcodec/bsf.h
... but that file cannot be found, aborting
 * ERROR: media-video/mplayer-9999::gentoo failed (unpack phase):
 *   (no error message)
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line 127:  Called src_unpack
 *   environment, line 3504:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           ./dump_ffmpeg.sh || die;


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -av1 media-video/mplayer

Actual Results:  
failed

Expected Results:  
not to fail

[Comment 1 email200202 2022-01-06 07:57:54 UTC]

Created attachment 761389 [details]
build.log

[Comment 2 email200202 2022-01-06 07:58:53 UTC]

Created attachment 761390 [details]
emerge -pqv '=media-video/mplayer-9999::gentoo'

[Comment 3 email200202 2022-01-06 08:00:12 UTC]

Created attachment 761391 [details]
emerge --info '=media-video/mplayer-9999::gentoo'

[Comment 4 Gordon Bos 2022-03-09 13:29:44 UTC]

Do you have an older Nvidia card?

I just encountered the same issue with handbrake and found this file to be missing on my system. It turns out that <ffmpeg-4.3 does not export this file during the install phase, but because ffmpeg has a dependency on my video card driver (why is that?) and newer versions won't support 390.nnn I am stuck to using the older ffmpeg.

So to fix my issue I simply copied libavcodec/bsf.h from the ffmpeg-4.2.4-r1 source to /usr/include/libavcodec