On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:26:53AM -0700, Chisum Lindauer wrote: > While I honor the svn recommendation, mencoder was known to be working for > this application on another server so I think it is the server environment, > not the mencoder itself, causing the issue. Well, it should be fixed in SVN. However you should be able to avoid the issue by ensuring that fontconfig/the fonts are set up correctly.