ports/57622: Portupgrade to latest mplayer version breaks application

[Stacey Roberts]

The following reply was made to PR ports/57622; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stacey Roberts <stacey at vickiandstacey.com>
To: "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs at rrr.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/57622: Portupgrade to latest mplayer version breaks
	application
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:08:42 +0100

 Hello Thomas,
 
 On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 20:11, Thomas E. Zander wrote:
 > Yoh,
 > 
 > On Mon, 06. Oct 2003, at 18:50 +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote
 > according to [Re: ports/57622: Portupgrade to latest mplayer version breaks application]:
 > 
 > > > Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce your problem since it works
 > > > completely as usual for me.
 > > 
 > > Not sure how I respond to that..,
 > 
 > You don't have to.
 > That's a alternative sentence to "For me it works and for the momemnt
 > I don't have access to a machine on which it does not." :-)
 > 
 
 'mkay..,
 
 > > > According to your output it looks like you have compiled mplayer with
 > > > freetype.
 > > 
 > > Err.., I've not explicitly compiled mplayer with anything., all I did to
 > > install was:
 > > 
 > > make -DWITH_GUI install clean.
 > 
 > If you do something like
 > 
 > ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer | grep freetype
 > 
 > and someting like
 > libfreetype.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 (0x284a7000)
 > appears, mplayer is linked against freetype and wants to use truetype
 > fonts instead of the ones provided in the mplayer-fonts port.
 > 
 > I'll take a quick look into configure....wait.......errr.....damn!
 > 
 > I see the problem!
 > The configure script in mplayer-0.90 defaulted to bitmap fonts, whereas
 > the new script detects and links against freetype automatically.
 > 
 > I'll submit a pr to fix this asap!
 > 
 
 Cheers for that.., Glad I'm not going crazy.
 
 > > I'd be happy to, if I knew how.., Like I said, if there's any
 > > truetype-anything in there, its not because I actually told mplayer to
 > > use it.
 > 
 > Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't see the change to the freetype detection when
 > checking configure last week, shame on me :-(
 > 
 > > Anyways.., if there's a link to how I could supply that truetype thingy
 > > to mplayer, do let me know, I'll give it  a try.
 > 
 > Well, that's easy: Just find any font named <something>.ttf, for
 > example in a fonts dir of a windows installation, or a web site
 > providing free truetype font examples (google certainly helps), and
 > copy this file to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
 > 
 
 Okay.., I'll give that a go and see how I get on.
 
 > That's it. THe next time you start gmplayer, it will use the font.
 > 
 > Well, okay, I'll take care of this autodetection thing.
 > 
 > Thanks for reporting this problem.
 > 
 
 No worries.., Thanks for being here to respond :-)
 
 Regards,
 
 Stacey
 
 > Riggs
 -- 
 Stacey Roberts
 B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science
 
 Web: www.vickiandstacey.com