[MPlayer-users] fonts in 0.90pre8-3.0.4 doesn't work

[Marc Thoben]

Hi.

On 6th of October 2002 at 21:05:43, Michal Semler wrote:
> [ snip ]
> 
> VO: [xvidix] 576x240 => 576x240 Planar YV12
> vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
> Disabling DPMS
> New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
> Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
> subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

As you can read here, mplayer is looking for a truetype font named
subfont.ttf in ~/.mplayer. In case you don't know, ~ is a synonym
for your home directory -> /home/cijoml/

> my fonts are located normally in:
> notas:/usr/local/share/mplayer/font# ls -la
> total 12
> drwxr-sr-x    3 root     staff        4096 2002-04-09 21:44 .
> drwxr-sr-x    4 root     staff        4096 2002-08-06 12:51 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     staff          29 2002-04-09 21:43 font.desc -> 
> iso-8859-2/arial-14/font.desc
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     staff        4096 2001-09-27       iso-8859-2
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     staff          36 2002-04-09 21:44 iso-8859-2-a.raw 
> ->
> iso-8859-2/arial-14/iso-8859-2-a.raw
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     staff          36 2002-04-09 21:44 iso-8859-2-b.raw 
> ->
> iso-8859-2/arial-14/iso-8859-2-b.raw
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     staff          37 2002-04-09 21:43 osd-mplayer-a.raw 
> -> iso-8859-2/arial-14/osd-mplayer-a.raw
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     staff          37 2002-04-09 21:43 osd-mplayer-b.raw 
> -> iso-8859-2/arial-14/osd-mplayer-b.raw
> no
> 
> what's wrong???

You have a version of mplayer compiled with freetype (truetype font)
support. These *.raw will not be used.


Ciao,
Chojin