[MPlayer-users] unreadable ass subtitle file

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Roberto Malinverni
<roberto.malinverni at dico.coop.it> wrote:
> I'm trying to play a mkv that comes with a subtitle track in "ass" format.
> Both mplayer SVN-r29996 (with internal ass library) and mplayer git-c3c0309
> (with an up-to-date ass library) give:
>
> [ass] no charmap autodetected, trying the first one
>
> and instead of the subtitles, a line of strange gliphs is displayed (all the
> file become "strange gliphs"...).
> The subtitles file is UTF-8 encoded, if that matters, and I couldn't find
> anything strange in it.
> I already tried to demux/remux the matroska, with no effect.
> Does someone have a clue?

It's the font. Libass tries to guess the charmap based on its name and
encoding, because some fonts have more characters in windows-specific
charmaps, and FreeType sometimes selects some other charmap as
default.

Can you find out which font it is related to by minimizing the style
section of .ass, or looking at "mplayer -v" log?