Hi Marko,
last debian or freetype has problems with utf8 patch. I know. :-/ Version for 1.4.4 will fix it. You can try older freetype versions or wait.
Und also link to German wiki: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch
Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:36:58PM +0100, Alexander Riedel wrote:
Hi Marko,
built-in bitmap Fonts in vdr are not uniform. Those must be first exchanged.
UTF8 user found Freetype fonts better than built-in. Size is scallable.
I see. I gave the patch a try. After all, the only added dependence on my system seems to be libfreetype6{,-dev}.
Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
For one, I fear that Freetype could use too much processing power. Secondly, I would expect the rendered glyphs to look bad in the interlaced output of vdr -P'softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv' (TV output of Matrox G450).
try out simply, i use DXR3 and meine frends FF cards.
Unfortunately, it caused a segmentation fault or something strange in iconv_close() in CharSetConv(), called from ConvertPhrases(). When I started it in gdb or quickly attached gdb during the initialization, there was no crash, but a hang or a signal (SIGTERM if I remember correctly), varying from time to time. When I started vdr standalone as "vdr -l1", it crashed in SIGSEGV. Valgrind didn't reveal anything either; it just appeared hung. The only error in the logs related to your patch was this one:
"ERROR: FreeType: an error occurred during FT_Render_Glyph"
I see that the iconv functions are part of GNU libc. I'm using version 2.3.6. The compiler version is "gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)".
The crash occurred on both vdr 1.4.2 and 1.4.3. On 1.4.2, there was one trivial reject: the disabling of the UTF-8 check. On 1.4.3, the patch applied cleanly. The only other patches are the patch of vdr-subtitles-0.3.11 (http://www.virtanen.org/vdr/subtitles/) and this patch of mine:
http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/vdr-1.4.0-suspend-0.4.3.patch....
I run vdr in LANG=fi_FI, charset iso-8859-1 ("locale" does not say it, but it definitely is 8859-1 or 8859-15).
Marko
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