Bug#528816: vlc: default subtitle font not available

[Clemens Buchacher]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:13:05PM +0200, Christophe Mutricy wrote:
> Le Fri 15 May 09 à 21:28 +0200, Clemens Buchacher a écrit :
> > The default font used for subtitles is
> > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf, but it does not exist.
> > Changing the font fixes the problem. I'm not sure which one would be a good
> > default, but maybe take something from xfonts-base?
> [...]
> > ii  ttf-dejavu-core        2.29-2            Vera font family derivate with add
> 
[...]
> So could you check what really is in the freetype module with the
> following command:
> strings /usr/lib/vlc/misc/libfreetype_plugin.so|grep /usr/share/font

That indeed returns

	/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf

Possibly the freetype-font configuration variable in ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc was
set to freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf. However, I certainly did not do that.

Clemens