Re: Default OSD font

On  Wed, December 29, 2010 14:56:10 GMT,  Reimar D=F6ffinger wrote:




> On 26 dec 2010, at 17:09, John Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > MPlayer shows the OSD even though I have not set up subfont.ttf. =

> > According to 'mplayer -v',
> > get_path('fonts') -> 'C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/johnbrown105/mplayer/fonts'
> > (right now I am in a MSYS shell so this path corresponds to $HOME/
> > mplayer/fonts, but it does not matter where I am.) This folder does not=
 even
> > exist.
> >
> > My compile prefix is c:/mingw/local. $PREFIX/etc/mplayer/ is empty.
> > $PREFIX/bin/mplayer/ exists but contains only config. $PREFIX/share
> > does not have an mplayer folder.
> >
> > How does MPlayer select a font when it has not been told which font
> > to use?

> You probably compiled MPlayer with fontconfig support, in which case it u=
ses =

> whatever fontconfig chooses...
> =


Yes, I compiled MPlayer with fontconfig support. So you are saying that =

subfont.ttf
is no longer strictly necessary, but If I provide one then MPlayer will use=
 it? =


I compiled MPlayer recently for the first time in several months (probably =
over =

a =


year.), so I expect that some things must have changed. I have always compi=
led
MPlayer with fontconfig support, but in the past, fontconfig or no fontconf=
ig, =

MPlayer would look for subfont.ttf and would not display the timer if it di=
d not =

find it,
unless I specified -fontconfig -font <my-favourite-font>.

Regards,
Alias John Brown.


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