[mythtv-users] OSD Font?

[Chris Pinkham]

> > Cool, thanks man. Is there any reason it can't use the fonts
> > available in X like the rest of the GUI?
> 
> I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but that's never stopped 
> me before... I believe the reason is that the OSD is not an X 
> primitive, but instead is a rendered image that is multiplexed into the 
> video output stream; hence it's not so simple to use X's font rendering 
> mechanism.

It would be possible to give Myth a directory full of ttf fonts
and list those for use, but I don't know enough about freetype and X to
know whether there's a way to list and use any ttf font that's available
to the X server.

Patches welcome... :)

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Chris