[MPlayer-users] fonts in 0.90pre8-3.0.4 doesn't work

[gabor]

On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 23:59, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> > > New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
> > > Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
> > > subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
> > 
> Will you provide a sample font in etc/ or onto download page, to avoid
> user messages as :
> My _xxx_ font doesnt work with mplayer because its broken, could you
> help ?


i'm not a developer/maintainer of the project, but i don't think
something like that will happen...

reasons:

-for the same reason that there's no mplayer skin in the package....

-an other problem would be to find a good-looking font with a license
that permits its distribution...
for example i mostly use arial, and you can freely download it from
microsoft, but you can't redistribute it.

- ttf support is still experimental ( you have to enable it, it's
disabled by default ) ... so if you know how to enable it, you should be
able to get a ttf font

bye,
gabor



> 
> 
> > you compiled mplayer with freetype support enabled (forced, as it's
> > disabled
> > by default) so you need ttf fonts instead of old-style .raw files
> > 
> > 
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