[MPlayer-users] MacOSX, Mplayer failing to render truetype fonts.

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On 19.12.2008, at 14:41, Alexander Wehr wrote:

> I've been having a persistent problem, and have decided to write in  
> after
> this persisted through a system upgrade.
> I've been building mplayer from SVN, and have freetype and fontconfig
> installed and up to date. To make sure, I searched through the  
> config log
> and found it had properly detected them.
>
> I'm using these lines in the config, and they're not throwing an  
> "unknown
> setting" error which DID occur when I built mplayer before updating  
> freetype
> and fontconfig:
>
> subfont-text-scale=10
> subfont-autoscale=2
> subfont-text-scale=5
> subfont-blur=1.1
> subfont-outline=1.2
> subalign=2
> subfont-encoding=unicode
>

try adding

ass=1
embeddedfonts=1
font=/path/to/font.ttf

> Yet, I open any soft-subbed matroska file (fansubs) only to find the  
> subfont
> is reverting to the teenie-weenie default text.
>
> This is highly unusual, as I have a secondary system which properly  
> renders
> the text, and I don't follow a different procedure in my installation
> process.  Is it possible I screwed up a setting somewhere in the main
> system?
>
> As I said before, I recently upgraded my system from an old PPC  
> tower to a
> macbook pro, and used the system migration tool to transfer the files.
> Obviously whatever is causing this mess was transferred with it, as  
> the
> problem from the old system is persisting here, but I went through and
> rebuilt/installed freetype, fontconfig, and various other related
> dependencies and received no errors from mplayer on compile.

show your commands for ./configure and the output of it.

>
> Anyway, if I could get some help diagnosing this cryptic issue it  
> would be
> great. I hopefully await someone's input on this.
>
> -Al
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