[MPlayer-dev-eng] Font hinting in libass

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 22:37, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:54, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > > > > I'm inclined to set FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING by default, because -vo gl,
> > > > > it seems, is not that popular, and hinting does much more damage
> > > > > with low resolution videos, than its absence does when rendering in
> > > > > screen resolution. I could also add "ass-hinting" option with four
> > > > > integer values: 0 - no hinting,
> > > > > 1 - light autohinting,
> > > > > 2 - normal autohinting,
> > > > > 3 - native hinting.
> > > >
> > > > I'd prefer an option, or at least the possibility to set the hinting
> > > > from within the VO, so vo_gl and vo_sdl can enable hinting.
> > >
> > > I don't like binding this to the vo too much, mostly because recent
> > > experiments convinced me that in some cases anything but light hinting
> > > will simply look unbearably ugly (I think the configuration was
> > > OpenSuSE 10.1 with normal hinting set in KDE and console windows were
> > > most ugly). Actually, no hinting was only bearably ugly ;-)
> >
> > Sure it shouldn't be done from within the VO and on some config
> > autohinting might not be desirable at all. However VOs could have a
> > control to tell that they don't scale the OSD. That would allow an
> > "enable autohinting if the OSD is not scaled" mode.
>
> Consider this patch. It adds -ass-hinting option with the 4 hinting types
> mentioned earlier. Also, if one adds 4 (i.e., hinting modes 4 to 7), it
> will apply only if vo is capable of rendering OSD without scaling. For this
> reason, a new VFCAP is added. The default is native hinting for unscaled
> OSD and no hinting otherwise.

Applied.