Mplayer font problem

royals1216 · 01-25-2004, 03:13 PM

Whenever I load mplayer, i get this error... it says... New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text fone file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf)... I installed the one western font by putting it into /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/default... could someone point me into the right direction? thanks alot

Crashed_Again · 01-25-2004, 04:07 PM

Apparently mplayer is looking for the fonts in ~/.mplayer so I'd put the font there. See if you have subfont.ttf by doing:

locate subfont.ttf

If you have it copy it to the mplayer directory:

cp subfont.ttf ~/.mplayer

That should do the trick. Just give Mplayer what it wants.

royals1216 · 01-26-2004, 12:25 AM

I cant seem to locate subfont.ttf... nothing happens when I type that in... where can I get it? thanks

royals1216 · 01-26-2004, 12:11 PM

peteathome · 01-28-2004, 09:47 PM

I've struggled through this twice now, so I must be an expert. At any rate, enter this command (from the MPlayer documentation BTW) and it should fix your problem:

ln -s /path/to/sample_font.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

In my case, my truetype fonts are located in /usr/X11R6/X11/fonts/truetype, so thats what I substituted for the "/path/to/sample_font.ttf" in the command above.

cronocopio-jon · 03-14-2006, 04:50 PM

I had the same problem in Ubuntu you need to install separate fonts to solve the problem !!!

After installing mplayer, install the fonts with this command:

# sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts

if you can not sudo then log as root and type:

$ apt-get install mplayer-fonts

references :
http://www.ubuntuguide.org/