I have a strange problem with mplayer currently. It's been doing this for a while, but I have not found any pattern or solution for the behaviour. Some mkvs play fine yet others do not use the right fonts. I've checked with mkvinfo and the file attachments are there. I've even installed the fonts to /usr/share/fonts and rebuilt the global font cache and it still doesn't work. Sample $ mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts file.mkv MPlayer SVN-r29964-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Playing [Frostii]_Nodame_Cantabile_Finale_-_01_[06D54D2B].mkv. [mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) "Video (H.264)", -vid 0 [mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC) "Japanese Audio (2ch LC-AAC)", -aid 0, -alang jpn [mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS) "English Subtitles (ASS)", -sid 0, -slang und [mkv] Will play video track 1. Matroska file format detected. VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x720 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) Couldn't open video filter 'ass'. ASS: cannot add video filter [ass] Init [ass] Updating font cache. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Unsupported PixelFormat -1 Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s! AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [vdpau] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12 **[ass] fontconfig: Selected font is not the requested one: 'Bitstream Vera Sans' != 'Linotype Aroma Bold' A: 41.2 V: 41.2 A-V: -0.000 ct: -0.091 0/ 0 26% 3% 0.7% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit) mkvinfo is showing the file attachments: |+ Attachments | + Attached | + File name: Linotype Aroma Semibold.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 44472 | + File UID: 1755402893 | + Attached | + File name: Linotype Aroma Semibold Italic.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 42924 | + File UID: 2456009634 | + Attached | + File name: Linotype Aroma Bold.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 43868 | + File UID: 515681451 | + Attached | + File name: Linotype Aroma Bold Italic.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 43016 | + File UID: 559502729 They're even in /usr/share/fonts: $ ls /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Lino* /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Linotype Aroma Bold Italic.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Linotype Aroma Semibold Italic.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Linotype Atlantis Bold.TTF /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Linotype Atlantis Regular.TTF /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Linotype Aroma Bold.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Linotype Aroma Semibold.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Linotype Atlantis Italic.TTF The script itself looks like: Style: Name1,Linotype Aroma Bold,57,&H00E8FCFD,&H000000FF,&H00000000,&HAA000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,1.8,0,2,20,20,20,0 Style: Name2,Linotype Aroma Bold,57,&H00ECFDEC,&H000000FF,&H00000000,&HAA000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,1.8,0,2,20,20,20,0 Style: Name3,Linotype Aroma Semibold,56,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H00000000,&HAA000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,1.5,1,8,20,20,20,0 I've turned on verbose logging and it simply is not using any font available to it. They're in multiple places. No matter what I do, it refuses to use the same font. Yet on some files with the same style definitions it works. Is it possible that there's some sort of filename check going on that's failing? There's no indication of this in logs and no sort of other commandline switches to show that type of output. Using media-libs/fontconfig-2.6.0-r2. I've tried fontconfig 2.8.0 with no difference.
