Bugzilla Bug 208786

Compiled current version kplayer and current version mplayer. When trying to
play an mp3 file, kplayer passes an invalid commandline parameter to mplayer.
The parameter is "-embeddedfonts". Current version has no such parameter...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on mp3
2.kmplayer pops up
3.nothing happens...

Actual Results:  
Nothing happend, kplayer app has a message box that shows the dialog between it
and mplayer. Mplayer complains "-embeddedfonts" Huh??

Expected Results:  
Should play music...

Built kplayer manually via ebuild. Inbetween unpack and compile I grep'ed the
sources and found where "embeddedfonts" resides and removed it from the
source... Simple edit... then compile, install and qmerge...

Results... it now works 100%.

I can't believe I'm the only one with this problem?

PS... tried compiling mplayer with embeddedfonts=1 in ebuild... no joy that
way, had to hack kplayer to fix this for me....

No, you are not the only one. I got the same problem here with kplayer-0.6.3.

I solved the problem by commenting this line in kplayer/kplayerprocess.cpp out:
*m_player << (configuration() -> subtitleEmbeddedFonts() ? "-embeddedfonts" :
"-noembeddedfonts");

mplayer doesn't seem to know the "-embeddedfonts" and "-noembeddedfonts"
switches. I am using mplayer-1.0_rc2_p25993.

As this is a known problem and it looks like this option isn't needed anyway,
can somebody please attach a patch to the ebuild? Without it kplayer won't play
anything.

MPlayer supports -embeddedfonts/-noembeddedfonts only if compiled with USE=srt.
 You can either 
a) enable SRT in MPlayer (via /etc/portage/package.use), or 
b) downgrade KPlayer to 0.6.2 (mask higher versions via
/etc/portage/package.mask).
Cheers.

Created an attachment (id=165690) [details]
kplayer-0.6.3.ebuild

This should clear it up for users.

Before I more or less blindly commit 0.6.3-r1, can someone commit, that the
required use flag is "ass" in between or is that a different implementation
with other cmd params?

Closing. Please reopen if you still see this with 0.7.