[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fontconfig support not working as expected

[Diego Biurrun]

Arwed von Merkatz writes:
 > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:08:48PM +0200, ismail 'cartman' dönmez wrote:
 > > cartman at southpark:~$ mplayer -font "Arial" /home/cartman/MultiMedia/Bomfunk\ 
 > > Mc\'s\ B-Boy\ Fly\ Girls.avi
 > run mplayer -fontconfig -font Arial
 > Alex added the -fontconfig switch to allow usage of font files with a
 > fontconfig enabled mplayer.
 > Shouldn't it default to fontconfig? The whole point of using fontconfig
 > is that the user shouldn't have to care about fonts, so having to enable
 > fontconfig usage feels wrong to me.

And it is missing from the man page...  What about this entry:

  -fontconfig
    Enables the usage of fontconfig managed fonts.

And yes, I agree that it should default to on.  If you have it
installed you will expect it to work.

Diego