I'm the developer of smplayer. I've just found this post: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699864#14
Are you seriously considering to replace smplayer by smplayer2? Is this for real? smplayer2 is based on an old version of smplayer (0.8.0) while the current version of smplayer is 0.8.4. It lacks a lot of things, like the support for youtube. You would be dropping a whole year of my work. smplayer2 works better with mplayer2 because it's intented to be a gui for mplayer2, so if mplayer2 removes the -fontconfig option they remove as well in smplayer2 and that's it. But smplayer tries to work with both mplayer and mplayer2, so I can't remove that option that easily. By the way I've just compiled smplayer2 from git and it can't work at all with the regular mplayer: Unknown option on the command line: -gapless-audio Error parsing option on the command line: -gapless-audio MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 The problem of the -fontconfig option was fixed in smplayer a lot of months ago (last november). It's not completely fixed because of the way mplayer2 is packaged in ubuntu (I guess is the same in debian). The problem is that the mplayer2 executable is called exactly the same as mplayer: "mplayer". So smplayer can't know what application it is until it's run for the first time. So when the first file is played it still can fail with the -fontconfig problem because smplayer assumes it's using mplayer, but once it knows it is actually mplayer2 it won't use the -fontconfig option anymore. In windows I fixed this problem very easily, in my packages I've renamed mplayer.exe to mplayer2.exe, so smplayer knows the actual application before running it, so the -fontconfig error never happens. For me it would be easier if mplayer2 in linux had also a different executable name. -- RVM _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
