Hi Marko, last debian or freetype has problems with utf8 patch. I know. :-/ Version for 1.4.4 will fix it. You can try older freetype versions or wait. Und also link to German wiki: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch Marko M?kel? schrieb: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >
