[mythtv-users] MHEG issues (UK) - flickering, video resizing, mind the gaps!

Simeon Walker simbloke at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 14 18:14:30 UTC 2008


On 14/04/2008, David Matthews <dm at prolingua.co.uk> wrote:
> Sam Jacobs wrote:
...
>  > For some reason the text doesn't look very good in the screenshots, it
>  > looks better on-screen - smoothing appears to have been applied at
>  > some level. Note that I modified MythFrontend to use
>  > TiresiasScreenfont for rendering MHEG text (I also have the rest of
>  > the interface using it, and it looks fantastic).
>
>
> The UK MHEG profile specifies the Tiresias screen font but as far as I
>  am aware this is still not freely available.  That's why the current
>  Myth code uses FreeSans.  I guess it could check to see if Tiresias is
>  installed and fall back to FreeSans otherwise.
>
Looks like they GPL'd the font!

http://www.tiresias.org/fonts/fonts_download.htm

Sim


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