[MPlayer-users] libass/fontconfig not using fonts

Uoti Urpala uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi
Fri Jan 22 06:12:00 CET 2010


On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 20:58 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote:
> I have a strange problem with mplayer currently. It's been doing this
> for a while, but I have not found any pattern or solution for the
> behaviour. Some mkvs play fine yet others do not use the right fonts.
> I've checked with mkvinfo and the file attachments are there. I've even
> installed the fonts to /usr/share/fonts and rebuilt the global font
> cache and it still doesn't work.

What's the actual font name contained in those .ttf files? That's the
correct way to determine whether the font matches; other methods are at
most fallbacks.



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