[MPlayer-users] subtitles format with mplayer?

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 06 February 2003, massi wrote:
[...]
> >I forgot to add that the font file was also needed. my bad!
> >
> >
> >One other thing to ask, was Mplayer compiled or are you using a RPM 
> >version?
> >
> Yeah, I used an rpm but I can't remember the exact version and I can't 
> check now (now I'm at the job)....
> 
> Some ideas? ;-(

Yes. Install one of the mplayer-font packages or put any freetype-supported
font as ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf. This is a known issue (maybe I should
document it on my site). Current MPlayer RPMs don't require the font
packages anymore. Next release (rc4) will include a free ISO8859-1/2 Type1
font.

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