[MPlayer-users] Does mplayer support Type1 fonts in mkv?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:30:21PM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi Reimar Döffinger!
> 
>  On 2011.04.25 at 13:27:54 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote next:
> 
> > > > Because I have .mkv file which contains type1 font attached -
> > > > le______.PFB & le______.pfm, and mplayer prints
> > > > 
> > > > [ass] Error opening memory font: le______.pfm
> > > > 
> > > > at start of playback. I wonder if something is broken with this mkv file
> > > > or that mplayer doesn't support embedded type1 fonts. Is it supposed to
> > > > work or not?
> > > 
> > > Uhh, does really no one knows at all if mplayer supports embedded fonts
> > > or not? I could upload an example, but I have no idea if it's broken or
> > > not and if this is meant to work at all!
> > 
> > MPlayer uses exclusively freetype and fontconfig.
> > If they support it, MPlayer supports it, if they don't it doesn't.
> 
> They do support it, of course. At least system-wide type1 fonts work.
> But mplayer might have additional problems related to that, like, idk,
> since it doesn't extract fonts into directory anymore, only in memory,
> maybe it messes up extraction of both files before activating that font
> and type1 font refuses to work because, say, mplayer tries to call it
> when only .pfb is extracted, not .pfm. Or it doesn't like the fact that
> .PFB extension is in uppercase here and .pfm isn't.
> 
> I could do better bugreport and upload sample, but is there anyone in
> mplayer working in that area right now?

You might want to ask the libass developers.
But I am sure they will want a sample file, too.
I also suspect that it is wrong of fontconfig to return the
pfm file name instead of the pfb.
Though the fontconfig documentation is really vague on how
to load Type 1 fonts, particularly from memory.