Hi Phil_Rhodes at rocketmail.com! On 2008.10.14 at 17:32:02 +0100, Phil_Rhodes at rocketmail.com wrote next: > > You can use -vo x11 > > On Windows? Er.. You're using windows? Kind of missed that.. Hm.. Are any video drivers except for directx usable on windows? > > or -vo gl > > I'm pretty sure that results in a non-capturable overlay, too. It doesn't, at least I never saw it happen. > > As about font, if your mplayer is build with fontconfig, > > What's that? How do I tell? On windows? Sorry, no idea.. if fontconfig even exists there, mplayer is probably using it.. You can look for libfontconfig.dll file or something like that in mplayer directory. Well if you have cygwin installed, you can use ldd to check it.. Actually, I think you should just try that option; if it works, you have fontconfig support - if not, you need to build mplayer with it, or, more likely, download better build somewhere else. > > (or write font=Arial in config) > > Which config where? mplayer.conf in config directory. > > > fontconfig is required for ssa/ass support anyway. > > What does ssa/ass mean? advanced subtitle formats, they're used to control font style/coloring/postion/effects, karaoke and so on. Since such subtitles often use many different fonts, good font chooser backend is required for features to work. Font library called fontconfig is what mplayer uses for that. -- Vladimir
