[MPlayer-users] Use -ass without fontconfig?

[wm4]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:43:36 +0200
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 13.04.2013, at 14:32, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > libass absolutely won't work without fontconfig.
> 
> Since (at least in MPlayer) it can be compiled without and still work
> this doesn't seem completely true to me...

OK, there is some support for that, but it won't work properly. It will
always use the user specified fallback font.

There were plans making it work without fontconfig (using the Windows
API instead), but that was never finished.