[MPlayer-users] Re: [-] monitoraspect

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2005 05:43 schrieb Rich Felker:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:57:09PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
>
> > And btw.: a Truetype font with subpixel hinting is looking better
> > than any bitmap font. (IMHO)
>
> Subpixel is nonsense except on LCD,

Of course. And even it requires DVI or a notebook display...

> which looks like crap IMNSHO.

Looks perfect...

> I will only use CRT.

Do that, it's your choice.

But don't be surprised if MPlayer will get bad reputation because it is 
unable to correctly play videos on correctly configured 5/4, 15/9, 16/9 
CRTs/TFTs with default configuration.

> And even with subpixel, hand-edited bitmap fonts 
> made for it (if the system allowed them) would look better than any
> scalable fonts...

Haha, there are no subpixel supporting bitmap fonts!