[mythtv-users] Internal Video player OSD almost unreadable

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/14/06 23:30, Paul wrote:

>
> I've got DPI set @ 100 x 100 using
>      Option         "DPI"   "100 x 100"
>
> But the OSD font is still "out-of-focus" note the normal TV recordings 
> the OSD is good just MythTV is poor output . I've looked at a few Xvid 
> and DivX and some its ok and some it isn't.
> Would this condition be something to do with resolution or encoding etc..


OK, before, I thought you were saying your fonts are the wrong size.  
Now it sounds like you're saying they're the right size, but they look 
ugly.  If so, it's almost definitely a problem caused by your not having 
the font specified by your OSD theme installed on your system.

So, either a) install the font, b) change OSD themes, or c) edit the OSD 
theme to use a font that you have installed and that looks good with the 
OSD theme.  If a font is requested, but not installed on your system, 
you'll get what X calls a "closest match", but what may actually be very 
different from the originally requested font.  Depending on many 
factors, the actual font you get may be different from request to request.

You can find the font name in the OSD theme's osd.xml file.  But, 
chances are installing http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ and 
http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ would help immensely.  If you need more 
information, please let us know what OSD theme you're using.

Mike