[MPlayer-cygwin] sub titles fail.

[Joey Parrish]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:10:55PM +0200, Arnd Kohrs wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> When I try to playback a file with subtitles I get the following error:
> 
> > New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
> > Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
> > subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

This error is not so much an error.  When MPlayer tries to load a font,
it tries the bitmap font first.  If this fails, you get this message.
Then MPlayer goes on to try to load it as a TrueType font.

Try setting font= in your config file, then running mplayer -osdlevel 2
and if you get a counter in the corner showing you how far into the
movie you are, then it works.

> Are sub-titles supposed to work for cygwin-mplayer?  Has anybody had 
> similar problems and resolved these?

They work fine when MPlayer is set up and used properly.  So please
perform the test I described and get back to me.

--Joey

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