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Bug 263185 - media-video/mplayer needs to depend on media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
Summary: media-video/mplayer needs to depend on media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2009-03-21 00:03 UTC by Olliver Schinagl
Modified: 2009-08-03 20:49 UTC (History)
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Description Olliver Schinagl 2009-03-21 00:03:24 UTC
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
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-03 06:28:40 UTC
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
Comment 2 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-03 09:10:53 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-03 20:46:46 UTC
(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
Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-03 20:49:35 UTC
  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.