[mythtv-users] Gray OSD fonts

[James Orr]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 03/28/2008 01:10 PM, James Orr wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >> On 03/28/2008 01:03 PM, James Orr wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The Gray-OSD theme comes with DejaVuSans fonts. (Look in the
> directory
> >>>> that contains the theme.) Make sure these are intalled.
> >>>>
> >>> OK, how does one install them?
> >>>
> >> They just have to be in the directory.  Just make sure they're there.
> > They are in the directory.
> >
> > Assuming "the directory" is /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD.
> Yep.  Should have said that outright.  Sorry.
>
> But, that means it's installed right.  So you're probably being bitten
> by a known (but unidentified) issue (that's either an issue with your
> configuration, your system libraries, your video drivers, or the font
> itself--we still haven't identified it, but it doesn't seem to be a bug
> in Myth).
>
> See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/295279#295279 and
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/294597#294597 (the
> link referenced within the previous link).
>
> If you give me a link to a picture of the screen, I can tell you for
> sure whether that's the problem.  Or, you can follow the instructions in
> the above posts and, if it fixes the symptom (ugly OSD fonts), it was
> the problem.
>
>
One point is that I'm just using 4:3 SD, not 16:9 HD as mentioned in those
posts.

I did comment out the fonts from osd.xml, and of course it works fine with
the default fonts.

I then went to try your experiment of copying the font files to ~/.mythtv
and changing the OSD font, however the fonts I copied do not show in the
list, only FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf and FreeMono.ttf.

I did get screenshots of what it looks like (with the unmodified osd.xml of
course) ...

http://www.orrwhat.net/screen1.png
http://www.orrwhat.net/screen2.png
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