[MPlayer-users] Libass - bold not rendering?

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, xatnys wrote:
> Bold text for the sample below doesn't seem to be rendering on this end.
>
> Could someone confirm? Sample: http://xat.uguu.us/gs/gentsamp.mkv
>
> MPC/VSFilter output: http://xat.uguu.us/gs/gentsamp_vsfilter.png
> Mplayer/Libass output: http://xat.uguu.us/gs/gentsamp_libass.png
>
> This is on MPlayer dev-SVN-r23572-4.1.2.
>
> Embedded font is Gentium - more info @
> http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/

The embedded font is regular so it should be emboldened. This is disabled in 
libass because I once stumbled upon a file where it made text look worse. I 
think it was KAA's release of School Rumble. Blue text in the opening. I'll 
recheck it.