[MPlayer-users] When will there be a new release?

Nicolas George nicolas.george at normalesup.org
Wed Oct 15 21:18:42 CEST 2008


Le quartidi 24 vendémiaire, an CCXVII, Attila Kinali a écrit :
> -fontconfig is turned on when you use -ass, unless explicitly
> turned off. IMHO ass is the only place where fontconfig really
> makes sence, as it is the only place where MPlayer has to
> deal with different fonts regularly. For all other cases
> setting one -font or specifying subfont.ttf is more than enough.

For the user, not having to know the path to a good font is quite
comfortable. In fact, if -fontconfig were enabled by default, there would be
no need to worry about the font, neither at installation time nor at run
time: the system would almost always automatically select a pretty good
font.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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