This is a compatibility problem with ffmpeg-0.7.3 (which did not happen with ffmpeg-0.7.1). source/blender/src/buttons_scene.c:2726: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘int’ from type ‘const union <anonymous>’ source/blender/src/buttons_scene.c:2731: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘float’ from type ‘const union <anonymous>’ Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 285791 [details, diff] media-gfx/blender/files/blender-2.49_ffmpeg-compat.patch This bug has been fixed upstream. I made a backported patch of this fix.
I can confirm this bug. Haven't tried the patch yet.
see also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374339
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 374339 ***
Can we get this backport released as a 2.57-r2?