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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.

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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
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  • Not sure what this did yet, but now omxplayer won't play any videos it once was...
    – nimig18
    Sep 5, 2021 at 20:24
  • UPDATE: May have just needed a reboot of the machine.
    – nimig18
    Sep 5, 2021 at 20:30
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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!

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