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

Andreas Hess jaska at gmx.net
Mon Sep 2 23:30:52 CEST 2002


On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:33:14PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > 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.

Hmm, I haven't experienced any problems with freetype 2.0.9


Andreas



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