I had a similar problem some months ago. I can't remember all the details, but 
i think it had to do something with avi. I changed the
useflags of transcode until the emerge of the latest version finished without 
any error. Try to unmask the latest version of transcode
and emerge it.

Good luck.

/Uwe

Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm trying to install k3b.  One of its dependancies is transcode.  The
> emerge stopped at transcode with specific errors, When checking
> bugzilla I see this is a known problem.
> 
> I'm not sure how to proceed from here. For example: If I have emerge
> install a version that doesn't appear in the bug reports (several
> versions back) how would that effect the install of k3b.  Wouldn't it
> still want to install the problem version?
> 
> Can I do something in /etc/portage/package.provided that will allow
> the old build to stand?  I'm familiar with how it works on backages
> that are a version or two ahead.  But somewhere, when I read up on
> package.provided it said this would work as long as the package listed
> there was a newer version.
> 
> I currently have:
> cat /etc/portage/package.provided
>   rsnapshot-1.2.2
>   bacula-1.48.5
> 
> In both cases those are newer than anything in portage (even masked).
> 
> I'd rather not build transcode by hand because the emerge of k3b
> showed a complicated string of deps and it seems like I could get in a
> pretty good mess going outside of portage for some pieces of it.
> 
> Can someone outline a proceedure for a case like this?
> 
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