[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] dynamic font generation

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thursday 15 August 2002 18:05, 陆然 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > yea, but think of chinese etc. they have very large fontsets with few
> > thousand chars, it's where it matters.
>
> yes, i've spent about one minute to generate a chinese fonts for mplayer
> and there even different encoding for chinese chars, other language i
> think just the same, i don't know how it is done in windows, seems they
> can generate fonts very fast, maybe they just generate the chars that
> is needed to display subtitles.
generating just the needed chars seems to be a good idea for mplayer too, and 
i doubt that mmx optimization alone could reduce 1min to something 
acceptable, imho even 5 sec startup time is too long

btw there is still the ttf -> bitmap stuff which is outside of mplayer and 
which needs some time too, allthough i dunno how much ...

Michael