The following minor proposed patch adds --enable-libass to ffmpeg. Tested on i386 and it appears to integrate well with the Xenocara fontconfig.
I sent this to $MAINTAINER brad@ at his comstyle address on Friday and as I've had no reply, I assume he's been busy, or the Email is stuck in greylisting hell, or the patch is too stupid for words. If the latter, I'm sure someone will here will let me know that. Thanks! --- Makefile.orig Sat Dec 28 16:29:12 2013 +++ Makefile Fri Jan 17 22:56:03 2014 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ V= 20131216 DISTNAME= ffmpeg-git-${V} PKGNAME= ffmpeg-${V} -REVISION= 0 +REVISION= 1 CATEGORIES= graphics multimedia MASTER_SITES= http://comstyle.com/source/ EXTRACT_SUFX= .tar.xz @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ # inter-library dependencies for the current configuration LIBavcodec_EXTRALIBS=-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lgsm -lmp3lame -lopus -lschroedinger-1.0 -lspeex -ltheoradec -ltheoraenc -lvorbis -lvorbisenc -lvpx -lx264 -lxvidcore -lz -pthread LIBavdevice_EXTRALIBS=-L${X11BASE}/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXfixes -lsndio -LIBavfilter_EXTRALIBS= +LIBavfilter_EXTRALIBS=-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lass LIBavformat_EXTRALIBS=-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lbz2 -lssl -lcrypto -pthread LIBavresample_EXTRALIBS= LIBavutil_EXTRALIBS=-lm @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ --disable-vfp \ --enable-avresample \ --enable-gpl \ + --enable-libass \ --enable-libgsm \ --enable-libmp3lame \ --enable-libopus \