On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:

 |I am running mplayer without the fonts directory (not downloaded the fonts
 |.tar.gz file ). It seems to work quite well. 
I did a chmod -x fonts ! ;-) 

 |What is the purpose of these fonts ?

from what I have seen... it shows a timer on the top left corner of the
screen.... and for DivX;-) clips it also shows a position indicator when
forwarding and rewinding.
(Basically On Screen Display)

I think it is also used to display subtitles to DivX clips (never seen
one... but remember reading about it someplace!)

Kingsly

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