[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Sep 12 21:18:06 CEST 2006


On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:59:07PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:41:28 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > I think it's time to deprecate the bitmap font support and move to
> > FreeType.  We can start by removing the font download links from the
> > homepage and update the documentation to tell people to use TrueType
> > fonts instead.  Eventually we could turn off bitmap font support by
> > default.
> 
> what about people using MPlayer on embedded systems?

LOL, some serious debloating is needed for that! :)

> For them bitmap fonts are smaller than using ttf's.

Only until you count including multiple bitmap fonts for each possible
text encoding, movie size, etc...

Rich




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