[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Just in case someone cares about poor freetype 2.0 users

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Mon Sep 2 23:33:14 CEST 2002


Hi,

> I can't see the case in forcing something that actually isn't needed,
> as freetype 2.1. I think most distros still come with freetype 2.0
> packages and mplayer works just fine with freetype 2.0. So why should

Yes and I was that forced 2.0 support.
But finally it turned out that 2.0 has some bugs causing the ft code to
disable itself, due to bogus fontsize->pixelsize conversion. See my
bugreport, atmos and iive got the same error yesterday.
This bug should be fixed first, if even possible.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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