[MPlayer-users] Solved: Mplayer does not display correct subtitle font

[Rashkae]

On 10-10-08 07:14 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> MPlayer SVN-r32415-snapshot-4.4.3
>
> There is no problem with playing an mkv with ass subtitles, whether or 
> not -embeddedfonts or -noembeddedfonts option is used, if the font is 
> installed on the system, the subtitles display with the correct font.
>
> However, when playing a file with simple srt subtitles and using the 
> -font option to select a font, (usually, Arial) Mplayer chooses a 
> completely different font to display.

This problem was caused by a font installed on my system with corrupt 
meta-data.  Strangely, newer versions of Mplayer was the only 
application I found affected, but regardless, probably a very hard 
problem to reproduce :)