Usage: ~~~~~~ 1. Make sure you have FreeType 2 installed. 2. Get a TrueType or Type 1 font. 3. Modify `runme' script for your encoding and font path. 4. Type: ./runme 5. Copy *.raw and font.desc files to ~/.mplayer/font/ 6. Run subfont alone to see more options. About: ~~~~~~ `subfont' program renders antialiased OSD and subtitle fonts for mplayer. What you get are bitmap and alpha *.raw files and a font.desc. What you need is TrueType, Type 1 or any other font supported by FreeType. Alpha channel is created using outline and Gaussian blur filters. ANY encoding is now supported! That is, all 8-bit encodings known by libc and user-supplied encodings (also multibyte) through custom encoding files. I prepared also Type 1 font `osd.pfb' for OSD characters based on bitmaps created by chass. Subfont was tested with Korean fonts from truetype-fonts-ko-2.0-1k.noarch.rpm I found on http://rpmfind.net/ and euc-kr encoding. Custom encoding file for euc-kr was generated from charmap I found in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/EUC-KR.gz (glibc package). This should work with -unicode switch for mplayer (though it is not Unicode encoding). It took about 14 seconds to render over 8000 characters on P3 @ 600MHz. Custom encodings: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For each character you want to render write the line consisting of: hexadecimal Unicode character code, followed by whitespace, followed by hexadecimal number representing your encoding, followed by new line character. Example: to render a single letter `aogonek' (Unicode 0x0105) and encode it using iso-8859-2 encoding (0xB1), your custom encoding file will consist of a sigle line: 0105 B1 Notes: ~~~~~~ + Starting x position of each character and the bitmap width is aligned to multiple of 8 (required by mplayer). + Currently subfont won't work on big-endian systems. + My development platform is RedHat 7.1. FreeType versions tested are 2.0.1 through 2.0.4. + FreeType library has a bug that makes subfont display some warning message about Unicode charmap for osd.pfb. Author: ~~~~~~~ Artur Zaprzala