MPlayer-users - Truetype / bitmap subtitle support

It would appear that my build of mplayer is now always looking for bitmap
subtitles. As a matter of fact, apparently the osncreen statistics won't
even show because I, of course, have no bitmap fonts installed (nor intend
to). How do I build it so I picks up the list of my truetype fonts on
startup and caches them like other builds do?

I tried to simply ./configure MPlayer-users@mplayerhq.hu
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Rolf Ernst
<rolf.ernst@silverlightning.org>wrote:

> It would appear that my build of mplayer is now always looking for bitmap
> subtitles. As a matter of fact, apparently the osncreen statistics won't
> even show because I, of course, have no bitmap fonts installed (nor intend
> to). How do I build it so I picks up the list of my truetype fonts on
> startup and caches them like other builds do?
>
> I tried to simply ./configure 

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Rolf Ernst
<rolf.ernst@silverlightning.org>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Rolf Ernst <
> rolf.ernst@silverlightning.org> wrote:
>
>> It would appear that my build of mplayer is now always looking for bitmap
>> subtitles. As a matter of fact, apparently the osncreen statistics won't
>> even show because I, of course, have no bitmap fonts installed (nor intend
>> to). How do I build it so I picks up the list of my truetype fonts on
>> startup and caches them like other builds do?
>>
>> I tried to simply ./configure 

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 02:23:49PM -0600, Rolf Ernst wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Rolf Ernst
> <rolf.ernst@silverlightning.org>wrote:
> >> I should add that I *did* compile freetype2.
> >
> > Sorry, scratch that, I am missing iconv.

If you do not have fontconfig as well, you have to manually tell MPlayer
which font to use (either by copying a subfont.ttf in the config
directory or with -font).