[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] SSA/ASS subtitles support

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 04:03 +0400, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> The purpose of this code is to generate a valid file name most closely 
> resembling the original one. Just for humans. Fontconfig matches fonts based 
> on their properties like family and weight, ignoring the file name.

Yes seems it reads all files in the directory when starting. That might
be a reason not to have a big cache of unindexed font files as loading
them all on startup could cause a noticeable delay.

> Maybe it would be better to name them like 1.ttf, 2.ttf. After all, mplayer is 
> not a tool for attachment extraction. In that case there is no need to keep 
> old fonts, and we can use temporary files. No need for this portable filename 

I don't understand why you say "In that case there is no need to keep
old fonts" - how is the naming scheme for the files relevant to whether
you want to keep them?