diff --git a/app-text/unpaper/unpaper-7.0.0.ebuild b/app-text/unpaper/unpaper-7.0.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 93%
rename from app-text/unpaper/unpaper-7.0.0.ebuild
rename to app-text/unpaper/unpaper-7.0.0-r1.ebuild
index 3e63806bd223a..3292db5b04db8 100644
--- a/app-text/unpaper/unpaper-7.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/unpaper/unpaper-7.0.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 IUSE="test"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
-RDEPEND=">=media-video/ffmpeg-2:0=[encode]"
+RDEPEND="media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+)]"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	app-text/docbook-xsl-ns-stylesheets
diff --git a/app-text/unpaper/unpaper-9999.ebuild b/app-text/unpaper/unpaper-9999.ebuild
index a26b837633864..51976000645b8 100644
--- a/app-text/unpaper/unpaper-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/unpaper/unpaper-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 IUSE="test"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
-RDEPEND=">=media-video/ffmpeg-2:0=[encode]"
+RDEPEND="media-video/ffmpeg:=[encode(+)]"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	app-text/docbook-xsl-ns-stylesheets