On 2023-12-04, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: >> However, the "h264enc" package has a hard dependency on mplayer. > > Which I believe is not needed for mpv. You can set:
The problem is not that h264enc is required by mplyaer, it's that the h264enc package requires mplayer: >From the h264enc ebuild >[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/media-video/h264enc/h264enc-10.4.7-r1.ebuild]: RDEPEND="media-video/mplayer[encode,x264] sys-apps/coreutils [...] sys-process/time" > vo=gpu > hwdec=auto > > or, > > hwdec=auto-safe > > in .config/mpv/mpv.conf and all should be good. Check the mpv man page for > "Actively supported hwdecs" to see what applies to your hardware. I don't understand how that's relevent to h264enc's dependancy on mplayer. The solution is to probably replace the h264enc script (which requires mplayer -- more specifically, it appears to require mencoder), with an equivalent script which uses mpv or ffmpeg instead of mencoder for transcoding. FWIW, mpv doesn't have a separate "encoder" utilitity like mplayer does. Instead, you just add some -o<???> "output" options to tell it where to write the stream and what container/codec to use for output. -- Grant
