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Noto color emoji font not rendering

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
debian

Research direction

Start by reproducing the XML dynamictext rendering with melt 191020 on Debian buster, and compare the fc-match result with the final video output. Trace the dynamictext font-selection and emoji-rendering entry points. Done means the Noto Color Emoji glyph appears in the rendered video, or the limitation is documented with a clear workaround.

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Description

I'm using debian buster and melt 191020. I've installed the fonts-noto-color-emoji package.

$ fc-match emoji
NotoColorEmoji.ttf: "Noto Color Emoji" "Regular"

But when redering the following xml, the emojis do not show up in the final video:

<property name="mlt_service">dynamictext</property>
<property name="argument">M 🎅ANY THANKS!</property>
<property name="geometry">
2.8823532941176464%/19.166667333333333%:103.83137198055492%x54.61666666666666%:100
</property>
<property name="size">500</property>
<property name="halign">center</property>
<property name="valign">middle</property>
<property name="family">AmaticSC</property>
<property name="weight">700</property>
<property name="style">normal</property>
<property name="pad">20</property>
<property name="bgcolour">#00000000</property>
<property name="fgcolour">#ff222222</property>

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

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