mplayer OSD no longer working

[Richard Jonsson]

Binary package hint: mplayer

1) 9.10 karmic
2) mplayer:
  Installerad: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9
  Kandidat: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9
3,4) When seeking, pausing, pressing 'o'-key there should appear osd text. There are play/pause/ff/rev symbols, but no text.

I think the actual problem is that mplayer seeks for fonts in the user dir, relevant lines from "mplayer -msglevel=6 test.avi":

get_path('fonts') -> '/home/richie/.mplayer/fonts'
get_path('subfont.ttf') -> '/home/richie/.mplayer/subfont.ttf'
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
get_path('subfont.ttf') -> '/home/richie/.mplayer/subfont.ttf'
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

I've purged and reinstalled mplayer to no avail.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 11 12:34:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 libavcodec52 N/A
 libavcodec-extra-52 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64
UserConf: # Write your default config options here!
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.31-13-generic

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Richard Jonsson <email address hidden> writes:

> I think the actual problem is that mplayer seeks for fonts in the user
> dir, relevant lines from "mplayer -msglevel=6 test.avi":

can you please retry with "mplayer -msglevel=6 -fontconfig test.avi"?

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[Richard Jonsson (richard-jonsson-bredband)]

sön 2009-10-11 klockan 14:04 +0000 skrev Reinhard Tartler:
> Richard Jonsson <email address hidden> writes:
>
> > I think the actual problem is that mplayer seeks for fonts in the user
> > dir, relevant lines from "mplayer -msglevel=6 test.avi":
>
> can you please retry with "mplayer -msglevel=6 -fontconfig test.avi"?

OSD works OK when running mplayer with -fontconfig

As a sidenote, the command I used above is wrong, it's supposed to be
"-msglevel all=6", and it makes more verbose console output.

> --
> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
>

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

ok, this meas that for some reason, fontconfig is *not* enabled by default for some reasons. There are a number of bugs because of this, but this really puzzles me. I've contributed a patch upstream that enables fontconfig by default, and backported it to the ubuntu package. For some reason, that patch doesn't work for you, and fontconfig is *not* enabled by default. I now really wonder why...

[Richard Jonsson (richard-jonsson-bredband)]

sön 2009-10-11 klockan 19:09 +0000 skrev Reinhard Tartler:
> ok, this meas that for some reason, fontconfig is *not* enabled by
> default for some reasons. There are a number of bugs because of this,
> but this really puzzles me. I've contributed a patch upstream that
> enables fontconfig by default, and backported it to the ubuntu package.
> For some reason, that patch doesn't work for you, and fontconfig is
> *not* enabled by default. I now really wonder why...
>
What you are saying is that you can't reproduce this bug?

I've just purged packages mplayer, mplayer-nogui, and checked to see
that no file or directory beginning with mplayer exists in /etc and
no .mplayer directory exists in my ~/ folder.
I then reinstalled package mplayer and verified that the bug is still
there for me.

I now have a file ~/.mplayer/config that is empty except for a commented
line of text.

In directory /etc/mplayer there are three config files; input.conf,
menu.conf and mplayer.conf.

In mplayer.conf everything is commented out, except one line that has to
do with audio output. The other two files seem irrelevant to this bug.

My installation was originally intrepid, upgraded to jaunty, and now
karmic. Maybe some settings are configured outside of the mplayer
package on a fresh install or something?!

I'm not sure what else I can do to help with finding the issue.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Richard Jonsson <email address hidden> writes:

> What you are saying is that you can't reproduce this bug?

I think I found it by chance: It seems that the patches are not applied
on other architectures than i386. I'll reinvestigate the packaging...

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[Richard Jonsson (richard-jonsson-bredband)]

mån 2009-10-12 klockan 05:38 +0000 skrev Reinhard Tartler:
> Richard Jonsson <email address hidden> writes:
>
> > What you are saying is that you can't reproduce this bug?
>
> I think I found it by chance: It seems that the patches are not applied
> on other architectures than i386. I'll reinvestigate the packaging...
>
Looks promising as I'm on amd64.
> --
> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mplayer - 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10

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mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu10) karmic; urgency=low

  * make sure that patches are applied for non-i386 builds as well.
    Fixes: LP: #390398, #448603, #448595, #441566, #440346

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:55:21 +0200

[Richard Jonsson (richard-jonsson-bredband)]

Works great now, thanks!

[Jon Eliot (jon-stromme)]

The same bug appears to still be present in mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20091207~nvidiavdpauppa2
Rgds

[Brandon Snider (brandonsnider)]

"The same bug appears to still be present in mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20091207~nvidiavdpauppa2"

That issue has been resolved in the nvidiavdpauppa11 version.