[gentoo-user] mplayer and fontconfig

[dhk]

I recently started using tovid again and it seems to be having a lot of 
problems with the programs it uses.  The last time I used it was in 
November and all worked well.

First there was a problem with libGL.so.1, it didn't seem to be on my 
system.  ldd `which mplayer` said it wasn't found.  After making a link 
(which I'm not sure is the correct fix) /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 now links to 
the /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so file.  This got me a little further with tovid.

Second tovid now complains when it runs mplayer.  The error is:
	The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
	Error parsing option fontconfig=1 at line 132
	Warning unknown option subfont-osd-scale at line 133
	Warning unknown option subfont-text-scale at line 134

The /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file has fontconfig=1 in it.  If I leave 
this value tovid's mplayer command fails and if I use mplayer for 
something else it doesn't work.  If I comment out fontconfig=1 the tovid 
mplayer command hangs, but then I can use mplayer to play videos.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
dave