diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.18.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.15-r1.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.18.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.15-r1.ebuild
index bdf6973efd455..b2b0c67be6c0b 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.18.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.15-r1.ebuild
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( >=media-libs/embree-3.10.0:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp[cxx] )
 	jack? ( virtual/jack )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.15.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.18-r1.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.15.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.18-r1.ebuild
index 8780d66cc455c..b2b0c67be6c0b 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.15.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.18-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( >=media-libs/embree-3.10.0:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp[cxx] )
 	jack? ( virtual/jack )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.8.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.8-r1.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.8.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.8-r1.ebuild
index f127201b747a8..24171b70d5a77 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.8.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-3.6.8-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( >=media-libs/embree-3.10.0:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp )
 	jack? ( virtual/jack )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r3.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r3.ebuild
index 66f6aa0684a08..12c75c6e0dcfd 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r3.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( media-libs/embree:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp )
 	gnome? ( gui-libs/libdecor )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r2.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r4.ebuild
similarity index 99%
rename from media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r2.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r4.ebuild
index fb05122a58e1c..6498f3f3abccf 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r2.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.1.1-r4.ebuild
@@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( media-libs/embree:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp[cxx] )
 	gnome? ( gui-libs/libdecor )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.1.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.1-r1.ebuild
similarity index 99%
rename from media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.1.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.1-r1.ebuild
index c587827325869..fc0bfc69fa26d 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.1.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( media-libs/embree:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp[cxx] )
 	gnome? ( gui-libs/libdecor )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.4.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.4-r1.ebuild
similarity index 99%
rename from media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.4.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.4-r1.ebuild
index 7d8618e63bae2..c6813514bc005 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.4.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.2.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( media-libs/embree:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp[cxx] )
 	gnome? ( gui-libs/libdecor )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.3.2.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.3.2-r1.ebuild
similarity index 99%
rename from media-gfx/blender/blender-4.3.2.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/blender/blender-4.3.2-r1.ebuild
index c5735ca5f00f4..8e849ba275148 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.3.2.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-4.3.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( media-libs/embree:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp[cxx] )
 	gnome? ( gui-libs/libdecor )
diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-9999.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-9999.ebuild
index 47a316667ba0f..6304da04d1cbd 100644
--- a/media-gfx/blender/blender-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/blender/blender-9999.ebuild
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	color-management? ( media-libs/opencolorio:= )
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	embree? ( media-libs/embree:=[raymask] )
-	ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:=[x264,mp3,encode,theora,jpeg2k?,vpx,vorbis,opus,xvid] )
+	ffmpeg? (
+		media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+),jpeg2k?,opus,theora,vorbis,vpx,x264,xvid]
+		|| ( media-video/ffmpeg[lame(-)] media-video/ffmpeg[mp3(-)] )
+	)
 	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
 	gmp? ( dev-libs/gmp[cxx] )
 	gnome? ( gui-libs/libdecor )