[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:51:00AM +0200, Chris Roccati wrote:
> 
> On 11 Sep 2006, at 12:41 , Diego Biurrun 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.
> >
> >Opinions?
> 
> This will create a dependence on an external and optional library  

Then import it..

> under MacOS X (and most likely under Win32 too).
> This does not sound like a good idea. An OS-Dependent font rendering  
> layer which could be adapted to FreeType under unix, ATSUI under  
> MacOSX and whatever they use under Win32 is probably a better idea.

This is stupid, huge duplication of code. Rendering text should not be
an OS-specific task. It's horribly wrong for mencoder to generate
different files depending on which OS it's running on...

Rich