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OSD menu"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">2.4. Fonts and OSD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gui.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. Installation</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="codec-installation.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" title="2.4. Fonts and OSD"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="fonts-osd"></a>2.4. Fonts and OSD</h2></div></div></div><p> You need to tell <span class="application">MPlayer</span> which font to use to enjoy OSD and subtitles. Any TrueType font or special bitmap fonts will work. However, TrueType fonts are recommended as they look far better, can be properly scaled to the movie size and cope better with different encodings. </p><div class="sect2" title="2.4.1. TrueType fonts"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="truetype-fonts"></a>2.4.1. TrueType fonts</h3></div></div></div><p> There are two ways to get TrueType fonts to work. The first is to pass the <tt class="option">-font</tt> option to specify a TrueType font file on the command line. This option will be a good candidate to put in your configuration file (see the manual page for details). The second is to create a symlink called <tt class="filename">subfont.ttf</tt> to the font file of your choice. Either </p><pre class="screen"> ln -s <em class="replaceable"><code>/path/to/sample_font.ttf</code></em> ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf </pre><p> for each user individually or a system-wide one: </p><pre class="screen"> ln -s <em class="replaceable"><code>/path/to/sample_font.ttf</code></em> $PREFIX/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf </pre><p> </p><p> If <span class="application">MPlayer</span> was compiled with <code class="systemitem">fontconfig</code> support, the above methods won't work, instead <tt class="option">-font</tt> expects a <code class="systemitem">fontconfig</code> font name and defaults to the sans-serif font. Example: </p><pre class="screen"> mplayer -font <em class="replaceable"><code>'Bitstream Vera Sans'</code></em> <em class="replaceable"><code>anime.mkv</code></em> </pre><p> </p><p> To get a list of fonts known to <code class="systemitem">fontconfig</code>, use <span class="command"><strong>fc-list</strong></span>. </p></div><div class="sect2" title="2.4.2. bitmap fonts"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="bitmap-fonts"></a>2.4.2. bitmap fonts</h3></div></div></div><p> If for some reason you wish or need to employ bitmap fonts, download a set from our homepage. You can choose between various <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/" target="_top">ISO fonts</a> and some sets of fonts <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/" target="_top">contributed by users</a> in various encodings. </p><p> Uncompress the file you downloaded to <tt class="filename">~/.mplayer</tt> or <tt class="filename">$PREFIX/share/mplayer</tt>. Then rename or symlink one of the extracted directories to <tt class="filename">font</tt>, for example: </p><pre class="screen"> ln -s <em class="replaceable"><code>~/.mplayer/arial-24</code></em> ~/.mplayer/font </pre><p> </p><pre class="screen"> ln -s <em class="replaceable"><code>$PREFIX/share/mplayer/arial-24</code></em> $PREFIX/share/mplayer/font </pre><p> </p><p> Fonts should have an appropriate <tt class="filename">font.desc</tt> file which maps Unicode font positions to the actual code page of the subtitle text. Another solution is to have UTF-8-encoded subtitles and use the <tt class="option">-utf8</tt> option or give the subtitles file the same name as your video file with a <tt class="filename">.utf</tt> extension and have it in the same directory as the video file. </p></div><div class="sect2" title="2.4.3. OSD menu"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="osdmenu"></a>2.4.3. OSD menu</h3></div></div></div><p> <span class="application">MPlayer</span> has a completely user-definable OSD Menu interface. </p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p> the Preferences menu is currently UNIMPLEMENTED! </p></div><div class="orderedlist" title="Installation"><p class="title"><b>Installation</b></p><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p> compile <span class="application">MPlayer</span> by passing the <tt class="option">--enable-menu</tt> to <tt class="filename">./configure</tt> </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> make sure you have an OSD font installed </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> copy <tt class="filename">etc/menu.conf</tt> to your <tt class="filename">.mplayer</tt> directory </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> copy <tt class="filename">etc/input.conf</tt> to your <tt class="filename">.mplayer</tt> directory, or to the system-wide <span class="application">MPlayer</span> config dir (default: <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mplayer</tt>) </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> check and edit <tt class="filename">input.conf</tt> to enable menu movement keys (it is described there). </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> start <span class="application">MPlayer</span> by the following example: </p><pre class="screen">mplayer -menu <em class="replaceable"><code>file.avi</code></em></pre><p> </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> push any menu key you defined </p></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gui.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="install.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="codec-installation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">2.3. 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