[MPlayer-dev-eng] TODO

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Last time I checked it took about 10 seconds to render over 8000 korean 
-> 1 sec ~ 800 chars. we need just 256 in most cases.

> characters on P3 @ 600MHz with subfont-c, but I'm sure it could go faster.
yes. afair the most time consuming part of font generation was the gaussian
blur shadow rendering, but it could be done using mmx.

> >- users need to have freetype library
> >- users need .ttf fonts (they are not fully legal to distribute, at least
> >the windows ones, but we could find some free fonts)
> >
> There is a way to distribute them legally! A quote from freetype at freetype.org mailing list:
>  Note that my machines are Debian systems, and that I installed
>  the "msttcorefonts" package on them. On installation, it
>  automatically downloads the fonts from Microsoft's site,
>  displays the required legal disclaimer, and installs them
>  on the machine. All of this absolutely legally !!
hehe :)
another nasty legal trick :)


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