smplayer: Unknown option on the command line: --fontconfig

[dorpm]

Since today with mplayer together with smplayer does not work anymore. I receive:

/usr/bin/mplayer2 -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -ao pulse -nokeepaspect -framedrop -dr -double -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 67108965 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/flori/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 0 -subpos 100 -volume 0 -nocache -ss 240 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 170 /home/flori/Videos/video/myMouse.mpg

Unknown option on the command line: --fontconfig
Error parsing option on the command line: -fontconfig
MPlayer2 UNKNOWN (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
ID_EXIT=NONE

It is the same with mplayer or mplayer2.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: smplayer 0.7.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 8 22:03:26 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: smplayer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-28 (194 days ago)

[rvm (rvm)]

Are you sure this happen with mplayer too?
I've just compiled the latest svn (35369) and -fontconfig is still working.

For mplayer2, yes they removed that option some months ago, and now smplayer (from svn r4683) doesn't use -fontconfig with mplayer2.

So the problem in smplayer is fixed, but you need the very latest version from svn.

[Astu Sterling (legendaryastu)]

I'm having the same problem when using smplayer, too. It started just a few days ago.

But it works fine when I open mplayer2 via terminal. I'm unaware of the versions of my software, but everything seems uptated to at least a few hours ago via update manager (Ubuntu 12.04).
I just use the command $ mplayer2 <file>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Astu Sterling (legendaryastu)]

I unchecked "Subtitles > Use SSA/ASS library" and now it is able to open.
A quickfix until the problem is solved, and a hint to the ones who will repair it, or at leasts I hope so.

[rvm (rvm)]

I attach a patch to fix the problem.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "mplayer2-no-fontconfig-fix.diff" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-reviewers team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by Brian Murray. Please contact him regarding any issues with the action taken in this bug report.]

[Yuval (yuvilio)]

While this bug is being looked at, for my ubuntu setup, I installed smplayer2 (currently available via ppa at https://launchpad.net/~smplayer2/+archive/daily ) . And using that one with mplayer2 seems to avoid this fontconfig issue.

[rvm (rvm)]

smplayer 0.8.2 has just been released, with this problem fixed (I hope):
https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/smplayer

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

Debian bug says this has been fixed in smplayer 0.8.3, so the bug should also been fixed in Ubuntu.