help required

mystic_durle12 · 02-17-2006, 12:26 AM

i have installed Mplayer on my system having Red hat 9. it always give an error when its starts
the error says.
New_face fail.Maybe the font path is wrong.
please supply the text font file.
(~/.mplayer/subfong.ttf)

but i have installed the font packages available at Mplayer site.(www.mplayerhq.com)but it woudl always give the same error.
can some one help me out.

reddazz · 02-17-2006, 02:44 AM

Copy one of your favourite truetype fonts to ~/.mplayer and rename it to subfont.ttf.

mystic_durle12 · 02-20-2006, 02:21 AM

which file. there r about 3 files in a font directory. which file r u talking about??

reddazz · 02-20-2006, 05:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mystic_durle12

which file. there r about 3 files in a font directory. which file r u talking about??

Copy any single truetype font to ~/.mplayer and rename it to subfont.ttf. You can get fonts from the mplayer website or from your system font directories e.g. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype.

mystic_durle12 · 02-22-2006, 12:47 AM

thanx alot fellow. the problem has been solved by ur help. thanx again