[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:59:07PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:41:28 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > I think it's time to deprecate the bitmap font support and move to
> > FreeType.  We can start by removing the font download links from the
> > homepage and update the documentation to tell people to use TrueType
> > fonts instead.  Eventually we could turn off bitmap font support by
> > default.
> 
> what about people using MPlayer on embedded systems?
> For them bitmap fonts are smaller than using ttf's.

IIUC FreeType supports more than just TrueType fonts.

> What is the reason to remove bitmap font support?

Bitmap fonts look ugly on small resolution movies because they are not
scaled proportionally to the movie dimensions.

Diego