[MPlayer-users] Use -ass without fontconfig?

[wm4]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:19:42 -0400
Josh <joshf87 at live.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to use -ass in mplayer without fontconfig? MPlayer
> has the '-nofontconfig' switch but for a really long time this has
> had no effect, it still uses fontconfig and creates a cache and users
> don't like it. The only other thing I can think of is to disable
> fontconfig at compile time, but maintaining multiple builds for a
> small minority who hate the font cache isn't desirable to me.

The best (and easiest) way to deal with this is to force a custom
fontconfig configuration file for mplayer to exclude the windows system
fonts folder. Then fontconfig won't scan the system folder, which
should make scanning very fast. Maybe fontconfig should still get
access to a small collection of common fonts, though.

libass absolutely won't work without fontconfig.