[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:59:16AM +0200, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Chris Roccati <roccati at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >On 12 Sep 2006, at 21:28 , Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >
> >> Write a wrapper that will use freetype or whatever macosx has,
> >> depending
> >> on the OS.
> >
> >That's what I proposed from the start. The response, apparently, very
> >was negative.
> 
> Such wrapper already exists and it's called Pango, but using it in
> MPlayer would mean more dependencies and bloat than using only
> freetype in all cases (IMO).

FreeType alone is not sufficient to render many scripts unless you
write your own additional code for layout, shaping, etc. However using
Pango is absolutely not an option as long as Pango depends on
nonportable GNOME crap (glib). Harfbuzz might be an option.

Rich