[MPlayer-users] MPlayer -embeddedfonts option with ASS/SSA subtitles

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Monday 13 November 2006 13:00, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 13 November 2006 at 10:15, Ergzay wrote:
> > I have noticed many many times users thinking that when you use ASS/SSA
> > subs in mplayer they are always "unix-y" which I am betting they mean
> > they are just using -ass for mkv embedded subtitles. I am wondering,
> > why is there even an -enbeddedfonts option? It seems to me you would
> > always want to use the embedded fonts if you are reading the subtitles
> > from the mkv file. Shouldn't this be linked so that by default
> > -embeddedfonts is on if you use -ass and the file is an mkv?
>
> +1 for enabling it by default unless there are some good reasons why it
> shouldn't be.

It was disabled for security reasons. The discussion started with this post:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/35084

I don't find it very convincing now. Keeping font cache is not more of a 
threat than .bash_history, for example. 

So, I support enabling it when -ass is used. After all, -ass is off by 
default. A warning could be added to both manpage and mplayer output.