Mplayer gives a lot of errors (every frame) on subtitles (even when none are present) when ttf-bistream-vera is not installed. Selected font is not scalable. Using ppem=14. FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes failed. Wrong bounding box, width <= 0 ! Cannot prepare subtitle font. Bitstream Vera is only being pulled in by xorg-x11, which probably everybody has. If however one would emerge freevo, xorg-server only gets installed and it's rightfully not pulling bitstream-vera in. Since mplayer can run just fine without xorg-x11 (or even freevo technically) mplayer should depend on ttf-bitstream-vera when one of the truetype/iconv useflags are used (if you don't use either I belive it falls back to bitmap fonts, which only get installed if you don't set the useflags) Reproducible: Always
media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera is "deprecated" in sense that media-fonts/dejavu provides more glyphs... and xorg-x11 is also "deprecated", it's a transitional package from monolithic xorg... should lastrite it one of these days
We (font team specifically) should really get that truetype font virtual started that we have discussed sometimes. This would be a case where it can be used.
(In reply to comment #0) > Mplayer gives a lot of errors (every frame) on subtitles (even when none are > present) when ttf-bistream-vera is not installed. What kind? I'm assuming SRT/ASS/SSA
03 Aug 2009; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731.ebuild: + Pull in dejavu or ttf-bitstream-vera with USE ass wrt #263185.