Bug 209779

Summary:	sys-block/seekwatcher won't make a movie unless mplayer is installed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	M. Edward Borasky <znmeb>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description M. Edward Borasky 2008-02-12 07:25:20 UTC

I installed seekwatcher and attempted to make a movie with it. The program croaked, saying that "--movie" was an unknown option. So I went to the web site and tried to play the movies there. They wouldn't play, so I installed "mplayer" (and its dependencies). Apparently one of those dependencies is also used by seekwatcher to make movies. So I'm thinking there's a missing dependency in the seekwatcher ebuild. But I don't know which one it is -- I might try to dig into that later.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-12 07:56:16 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> So I'm thinking there's a missing dependency in the seekwatcher ebuild. But I 
> don't know which one it is -- I might try to dig into that later.
> 

That doesn't take too much digging... ;) http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/

<snip>
seekwatcher --movie uses mencoder or png2theora to create movie files.
</snip>

The first one is provided by media-video/mplayer with USE=encode, the second by media-libs/libtheora with USE=examples.

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2008-02-12 17:33:58 UTC

I added a postinst note about this. I did not put it as a dependency as they are not actually required, and they pull in a lot of stuff when you are using seekwatcher on a server.