Author Topic: Greek font support under LinuxMCE  (Read 8696 times)

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Re: Greek font support under LinuxMCE
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2011, 05:11:07 pm »
Try xine-ui on the machine where totem works fine and see what happens.

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Re: Greek font support under LinuxMCE
« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2011, 06:04:34 pm »
Oh hey, I did it. Found out what's happening: Xine uses its own fonts. Totem uses the system's FreeType fonts.

To tell Xine to use a FreeType font for subtitles, find and set these like so in xine.conf:

subtitles.separate.font_freetype:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf
subtitles.separate.font_use_freetype:1
subtitles.separate.src_encoding:iso-8859-7

Reference: http://www.xine-project.org/faq#supportedfonts

You don't even need language-support-el.
« Last Edit: February 15, 2011, 06:10:30 pm by uplink »

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Re: Greek font support under LinuxMCE
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2011, 09:31:19 pm »
Thanks a lot, that worked just fine :). I could not have done this without your help.