OSD fonts badly rendered in most zoom settings

[Nico]

Binary package hint: mythtv

I have Gutsy with the latest updates at this date, on x86_64.

It is connected to an HDTV using DVI/HDMI and is running at 1920x1080.

I am currently using an NVIDIA card using the Ubuntu nvidia-glx. The problem existed as well when using an Intel GPU in the same machine (2.0 and 2.1.1 drivers).

The display is set hard to 100dpi in xorg.

All the normal theme stuff (menus, EPG, etc...) is displaying great.

BUT -- All the OSD, when watching TV, has fonts rendered badly, with weird aspect ratios and overlaps. This is for the OSD menu, the program information, the volume setting, position, etc...

I tried many different OSD themes with the same results.

Fonts are rendered properly when 4:3 "zoom" is selected.

Any info/dumps/logs/confs can be provided quickly upon request.

Nico

[Nico (nico-rdo)]

I made a few snapshots of how it looks like.

They are available here:

http://www.youplala.net/~will/htpc/bad_fonts/

Nico

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Have you tried a few different fonts/sizes for this? It would appear that Myth isn't cooperating well with the font sizes you've used.

[Nico (nico-rdo)]

Mario,

I think the fonts come with the themes. I have changed the themes, and still the same problem.

In the TV setting, I can change fonts for the OSD, big/small/default for the size, FreeSans/FreeMono for the fonts. That's all. And I get the same result, whatever the settings combination.

Is there a log file I could look at regarding Mythfrontend, it may spew a few lines about font rendering.

Outside the OSD, for the rest of the MythTV interface, all is fine.

Here are my *font* and *ttf* packages installed:

nico@favia:~$ dpkg -l | grep font
ii console-setup 1.16ubuntu4 Setup the font and the keyboard on the conso
ii console-terminus 4.20-5.1 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading on the Li
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu4 Linux console and font utilities
ii defoma 0.11.10-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config
ii fontconfig 2.4.2-1.2ubuntu1 generic font configuration library - support
ii fontconfig-config 2.4.2-1.2ubuntu1 generic font configuration library - configu
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-3 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
ii gsfonts-x11 0.20build1 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11
ii libconsole 1:0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu4 Shared libraries for Linux console and font
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2ubuntu1 generic font configuration library - runtime
ii libfontconfig1-dev 2.4.2-1.2ubuntu1 generic font configuration library - develop
ii libfontenc1 1:1.0.4-2 X11 font encoding library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii libfreetype6-dev 2.3.5-1 FreeType 2 font engine, development files
ii libxfont1 1:1.3.0-0ubuntu1 X11 font rasterisation library
ii libxft-dev 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing library for X (d
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii msttcorefonts 2.2 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
rc sun-java6-fonts 6-02-1ubuntu1 Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
ii ttf-freefont 20060501cvs-12 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 25.1 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X
ii xfo...