[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] mplayer: add the -ass-keep-fonts option.

[wm4]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:42:15 +0100
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> It is now possible to do:
> 
> mplayer -ass -ass-keep-fonts fonts.mkv video.mkv
> 
> and use the fonts attached to the first file to render ASS
> on the second file.
> This allows to distribute the fonts once for a series of similar
> files without requiring to install them on the system, which may
> be inconvenient for the user.

Sorry to barge in, but how could this feature be possibly useful in any
way? If you play a mkv file with ASS subtitles that somehow is missing
fonts, you can copy them to ~/.fonts/, and everything will just work,
and keep working forever.

On the contrary, this feature would probably encourage the creation of
broken files.