[MPlayer-users] No subtitles!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:59:28PM +0300, Emil Ungurean wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tuesday 20 May 2003 23:00, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:35:08PM +0300, Emil Ungurean wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 20 May 2003 21:02, Corey Hickey wrote:
> > > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> > > > DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > >
> > > > Emil Ungurean wrote:
> > > > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> > > > > DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi all!
> > > > >
> > > > > 	I've just compiled mplayer ver .090 and no subtitles comes up.
> > > > > Any ideeas what went wrong? Besides this problem the player works as
> > > > > expected!
> > > > >
> > > > > Thnak you.
> > > > >
> > > > > Emil Ungurean
> > > > > Digital Computers
> > > > > 2900 Arad, Romania
> > > >
> > > > Search the mplayer manual page for "subtitle" and you'll find a wealth
> > > > of options for turning on and manipulating the display of subtitles. If
> > > > you still have trouble, then reply and tell us what type of video
> > > > you're playing (DVD, avi, etc.) and the exact command you're using to
> > > > play it. If you think you're using the right command and it doesn't
> > > > seem to work, then post the _full_ output of mplayer.
> >
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >
> > > I get this when I run gmplayer <some.avi> -sub <some.sub>
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > SUB: Detected subtitle file format: microdvd
> > > SUB: Read 1274 subtitles.
> > > SUB: Adjusted 69 subtitle(s).
> >
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >          /|\
> >
> >           ` not full!!
> >
> > I suspect the problem is that you don't have fonts, but you say
> > they're ok. However, there's no way we can know what's wrong without
> > full output!
> >
> > Rich
> >
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> 
> 
> 
> Here is the full output, and still don't get any subtitles, with the RH7.3 
> rpm's it works, but nw I'm on Slack.
> 
> emil at blackbox:~$ gmplayer /mnt/cdrom/40\ days\ and\ 40\ nights.avi -sub 
> /mnt/cdrom/40\ de\ zile\ si\ 40\ de\ nopti.ro.SUB
> Using GNU internationalization
> Original domain: messages
> Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
> Current domain: mplayer
> Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
> 
> 
> MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
> 
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron SF Spitfire (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx
> 
> Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
> directory
> Reading config file /home/emil/.mplayer/config
> [cfg] read config file: /home/emil/.mplayer/gui.conf
> Reading config file /home/emil/.mplayer/gui.conf
> vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local 
> display)
> Reading /home/emil/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
> '/home/emil/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
> Font /home/emil/.mplayer/font/ loaded successfully! (0 chars)
                                                       ^^^^^^^

Whatever font you have, it has 0 characters in it, so it's probably
not useful for displaying anything. So like I said, the problem is the
font.

Rich