[MPlayer-users] MPlayer, Ubuntu Hoary and no OSD...

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/5/05, Lee McLain <lee.mclain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I have compiled MPlayer 1.0pre7 with OSD menu support(...yes) and
> made sure that the fonts were located in
> /usr/local/share/mplayer/font, but I still don't have any on-screen
> display.  I have tried to toggle the OSD on/off, but no luck.
>    I did notice that the fontconfig heading came up with a 'no', but I
> don't know why that would be, fontconfig IS installed on the system.

I'm not sure, but try to install libfreetype and libfreetype-dev, and
see what happens. This would allow you use truetype fonts for the OSD,
which is what I use, and which works just fine.

Guillaume
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