mplayer problem New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong

matters · 01-12-2009, 03:20 PM

hi! Mplayer worked great untill i wanted to changed untill now

I want to use in mplayer font arial cp1250 instead of default one

so now i copied arial cp1250 to /usr/share/mplayer
created symbolic link font to it

Code:

ls -l /usr/share/mplayer/
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      root   18 2009-01-12 21:36 font -> font-arial-cp1250//
drwxr-xr-x 6 matters12 1000 4096 2003-07-14 02:02 font-arial-cp1250/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root      root 4096 2009-01-12 15:27 skins/

Now when i want to play avi with srt subtitle it gives me:

Code:

New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
A:   4.7 V:   4.7 A-V: -0.000 ct:  0.002 113/113 13%  4%  1.2% 4 0

What can i do to fix the problem?

THanks!

XavierP · 01-12-2009, 04:15 PM

It's looking for a file ending in .ttf. You need to move (or link) one of the font files in that folder to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

matters · 01-12-2009, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by XavierP

It's looking for a file ending in .ttf. You need to move (or link) one of the font files in that folder to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

figured that out but it still does not provide srt character set of language that i wish. how can i determine in wish srt file are encoded wether its cp 1250 or some other?

thanks!

problem solved by putting actual font name instead of path to the font