[mythtv-users] Gray OSD fonts

[Darryl Hirschler]

Thanks for those screenshots.  Also check out the '2' character.
Something is wrong with it.  Mine looks the same as your screen caps.
Itallic lowercase 'L' looks like it's having problems too.

 

 

Darryl

 

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of James Orr
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:14 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Gray OSD fonts

 

 

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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