[MPlayer-dev-eng] mencoder and freetype

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2006/7/1, Chris Roccati <roccati at pobox.com>:
> Hello,
> some recent change in the SVN has imposed to mcoder a dependence on
> freetype: instead of using libvo/libvo.a, mencoder directly depends
> on libvo/font_load_ft.c (etc) causing the build to fail if freetype
> is disabled or not available. Is this an accident or a design choice?
>
> mencoder builds and appears to work fine with these changes:
[...]
> but obviously I didn't test it very deeply.

Many people use mencoder to embed subtitles.
It is done by "export" filter.

Rejected.