[MPlayer-users] Fonts in Mplayer

[ajaxas]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:53:51 -0500
Ergzay <ergzay at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I go about using custom ASS fonts in mplayer as external files? 
> Why I'm asking is I have a mkv file what has embedded fonts but mplayer 
> is failing to extract them so it complains about not finding the font 
> file. The .mplayer/font directory is only for .RAW fonts or something 
> strange like that. If it's not the documentation needs updating badly 
> then.
> 
> Ergzay

If you've got fontconfig installed on your PC, it's not a problem.
Just use the -embeddedfonts option, like this:

mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts file.mkv

The font will be extracted into the ~/.mplayer/fonts directory.

About documentation: man mplayer. It's all here.

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