On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, poff wrote:

> I just checked netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/distfiles/mplayer
> and the same for freebsd.org and found none of these font files.

That's probably because we're not mirroring the mplayer sources at
all... You don't see the 0.90 distfile there either, do you? What
you do see there is an old distfile for an old pre-release version,
the last one before mpdvdkit was added to the distribution.

> What are they? Are they necessary? Where can I get them from? Can I (should
> I) just disable them?

You know, the pkgsrc package downloads all of that from the mplayer
site directly, and sets it all up (with a fixed font). The font is
used mainly for the on-screen display, so it is optional.

If you insist on doing things the hard way, the latest tarballs and
CVS from mplayerhq.hu support true-type fonts, so you can just make
"~/.mplayer/subfont" a symlink to one of the XFree-4.3.0-installed
fonts, such as "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximri.ttf". As I said,
the CVS doesn't run out-of-the-box on NetBSD 1.6.1, though -- you'll
need either one of the trivial patches in the
"/usr/pkgsrc/graphics/mplayer-share/patches" directory, or else you'll
need to build with --disable-i18n (or --without-i18n, I forget).

Frederick