I wanted to install smplayer. Even though Install-Recommends is false, apt wants
to install mpv, imagemagick-common, and fonts-urw-base35. Does anyone here know
why a video player requires additional fonts instead of using already installed
fonts? What about why more imagemagick is required, or why smplayer can't be
used
without mpv installed?
Total new packages count is 24. Some I suppose must really be required, but
these
3, libdjvulibre* and vapoursynth are all suspect, especially the fonts:
# dpkg -l | grep fonts
ii fonts-dejavu-core 2.37-2 all Vera font family derivate with
additional characters
ii fonts-droid 1:4.4.4r2-6 all handheld device font with
extensive style and language support
ii xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.4-2.1 all Encodings for X.Org fonts
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.3-1.2 all scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.7+6 amd64 X Window System font utility
programs
Why do I want smplayer? VLC is routinely trouble, like failing to play audio
or video or both together in sync, or failing to find and offer the starting
point
automatically.
ATM, VLC won't play audio, even though user is authorized in /etc/groups for
audio,
cdrom and video.
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