On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:55:09 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
wrote:
> At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:09:00 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> wrote:
> 
> > can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both
> > do.
> 
> Thanks I tried mplayer and as soon as it starts it complained that it
> could not load bitmap font sans-serif.  So I went to preferences and
> pointed it to a font that is there and the complaint reappeared with
> this new font.  I tried several and always received the same complaint
> with the font I chose mentioned explicitly.  For example now it says
> 
> Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/cour.ttf

Have you compiled mplayer with "truetype" USE flag?


Cheers,
Renat

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