[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bug in font extractor for mkv

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 02:01, Ergzay wrote:
> > I've got the exact same file and it works here. Are you really sure
> > that it
> > extracts only one font ? Which one, by the way ?
>
> Not sure on the exact font name, but it should be extracting AeroDB
> Eclipse (which is in the mkv file). Which is why it gives this error:
> [ass] fontconfig: Selected font family is not the requested one:
> 'Verdana' != 'AeroDB Eclipse'
> As it is selecting the default Verdana instead of what font is listed
> in the embedded ASS file. The one it is successfully extracting is the
> one used for the romaji in the opening, named Flora.
>
> > Also, fontconfig 1.0.1 is about 4 years old (if it is not a typo), try
> > upgrading.
>
> fontconfig doesn't do the font extracting anyway I don't think.
> Although I just updated to very latest release version of fontconfig
> (2.4.2) and it now works. This is odd though why it would only get get
> the first font (I guessed it was only the first as it makes no sense to
> extract one from the middle).

Aero DB is the first. Most likely it was extracting everything, but ancient 
fontconfig failed to match some of the fonts.