Oddly enough, I think I was having the same issue last night. You are missing a symlink to a font, or have not compiled font-config suppport into freevo.
I started to use the svn mplayer about two weeks ago, compiled by hand. I was watching an avi which should have had subtitles for 2 minutes in the middle of the movie, but they just plain old didn't show. Then, I noticed hitting the button "o" (which is supposed to Toggle OSD states - showing time left to play etc ) didn't work either - the triangle showed up, but the time didn't. After reconfiguring freevo to debug child apps (DEBUG_CHILDAPP=1 in local_conf.py - it changed from "CHILDAPP_DEBUG=1" at some stage) I noticed this in my logs : j...@captainspaulding:/var/log/freevo$ cat mplayer-stderr-1000-1247381546.log New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. j...@captainspaulding:/var/log/freevo$ So, I picked a font and symlinked to it from ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf. I used : subfont.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf The other option is to recompile mplayer with font config support. After you do this, you may need to add this : -------- 8< -------- # get a default OSD font from fontconfig fontconfig = yes font = "Sans" subfont-text-scale = 3 -------- 8< -------- Bernard Mentink wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Well after much playing with Freevo, I have decided that Mplayer is the > most flexible player to use for all media including TV. > For TV the picture quality is far superior with the many post-processing > filter options that mplayer provides. > > The only bugbear I have with freevo/mplayer is to do with OSD, no matter > what I do I can't get Freevos OSD to display using mplayer. > At the moment I am using an svn version of mplayer (but the aptitude > version didn't work either ..) is there any mplayer options I need to > turn on at either > configure time or at run time that will let mplayer display the Freevo > OSD's? How do I debug this. > > I don't even know what the OSD's look like for TV, can someone send me > a screenshot? Has anyone used mplayer for TV? Do you have the same issues? > > (By the way, I have installed kaa.display, and I am using > DVBStreamer->LivePause->Mplayer ...) > > Thanks, > Bernie > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Jacob Briggs Systems Engineer Core Technology Limited Level 1, NZX Centre 11 Cable Street Wellington Phone +64 4 801 2250 -- Private Object doAnythingConceivable(String whatToDo, Object whatToDoItWith) { ..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users