/etc/make.conf:

# MDM Adding the following for all this video editing (from DVD's, camcorder).... [a52 v4l2 nuv x264]

/etc/portage/package.use:

# MDM Definitely want to rip DVD's as needed ; use alsa (not [oss])
media-video/cinelerra-cvs css -oss

After emerging avidemux, I needed to do a revdep-rebuild to fix libfaad.so for transcode, ffmpeg, etc. I did a full [emerge_all], aifol.

While recently incapacitated, I took some time to get MythWeb set up and running. It was no sweat – just installed apache with PHP support on my Myth box, and installed MythWeb. gentoo makes it all easy as pie.

The icing on the cake is to install VLC on the client. (continued…)