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Windows Fontconfig issue stops entire pipeline #1

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@ReppzTV

Hi,

I tested ffmpeg-ai on Windows and the pipeline successfully completes script generation, TTS, image generation, and video composition.

However, it fails during the hook overlay stage:

Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)

The failure occurs inside add_hook_overlay() and causes the entire pipeline to abort, even though the video has already been created.

Would it be possible to:

Add a --no-hook or --disable-hook-overlay option.
Fallback gracefully if drawtext fails.
Continue to captions/export instead of raising a fatal exception.
Allow users to provide a custom font path.
Make hook overlays optional in the configuration.

This would improve Windows compatibility and allow generation of clean videos without intro text.

Thanks for the project.

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