I installed omxplayer on Raspbian Buster Lite (no Desktop, no Xserver) on an rpi3. On my previous builds when I paused a video I would get an OSD with the current runtime and time remaining. Now nothing appears. I tried pausing through dBus and terminal. Neither shows any OSD.
I'm using
omxplayer --blank "$video"
to start videos within a screen.
Videos play perfectly fine other than missing OSD.
Alternatively, install the package containing those fonts:
sudo apt install -y fonts-freefont-ttf
(Found by searching the list of font-related packages on debian.org)
Note: For earlier versions of Raspbian, the package name was different:
sudo apt install -y ttf-freefont
I usually use omxplayer wrapped in a script. When I ran it naked I saw the error message "Error: Unable to open font". A little search and I found omxplayer uses these fonts for the OSD..
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansOblique.ttf
I downloaded the ttf from the web then..
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont && chmod 755 freefont sudo cp /path/to/font/ttf/files /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/*
then to load them without rebooting..
fc-cache
I restarted omxplayer and it worked!