On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:36:58PM +0100, Alexander Riedel wrote: > Hi Marko, > > built-in bitmap Fonts in vdr are not uniform. Those must be first exchanged. > > UTF8 user found Freetype fonts better than built-in. Size is scallable. I see. I gave the patch a try. After all, the only added dependence on my system seems to be libfreetype6{,-dev}. > > Marko M?kel? schrieb: > >For one, I fear that Freetype could use too much processing power. > >Secondly, I would expect the rendered glyphs to look bad in the > >interlaced output of vdr -P'softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv' > >(TV output of Matrox G450). > > try out simply, i use DXR3 and meine frends FF cards. Unfortunately, it caused a segmentation fault or something strange in iconv_close() in CharSetConv(), called from ConvertPhrases(). When I started it in gdb or quickly attached gdb during the initialization, there was no crash, but a hang or a signal (SIGTERM if I remember correctly), varying from time to time. When I started vdr standalone as "vdr -l1", it crashed in SIGSEGV. Valgrind didn't reveal anything either; it just appeared hung. The only error in the logs related to your patch was this one: "ERROR: FreeType: an error occurred during FT_Render_Glyph" I see that the iconv functions are part of GNU libc. I'm using version 2.3.6. The compiler version is "gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)". The crash occurred on both vdr 1.4.2 and 1.4.3. On 1.4.2, there was one trivial reject: the disabling of the UTF-8 check. On 1.4.3, the patch applied cleanly. The only other patches are the patch of vdr-subtitles-0.3.11 (http://www.virtanen.org/vdr/subtitles/) and this patch of mine: http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/vdr-1.4.0-suspend-0.4.3.patch.gz I run vdr in LANG=fi_FI, charset iso-8859-1 ("locale" does not say it, but it definitely is 8859-1 or 8859-15). Marko