[MPlayer-users] R: R: unreadable ass subtitle file [SOLVED]

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Monday 21 December 2009 09:55:07 Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> > -----Messaggio originale-----
> > Da: Roberto Malinverni [mailto:roberto.malinverni at dico.coop.it]
> > Inviato: venerdì 18 dicembre 2009 12.30
> > A: 'MPlayer usage questions, feature requests,bug reports'
> > Oggetto: [MPlayer-users] R: unreadable ass subtitle file
> >
> > > -----Messaggio originale-----
> > > Da: Evgeniy Stepanov [mailto:eugeni.stepanov at gmail.com]
> > > Inviato: giovedì 17 dicembre 2009 13.20
> > > A: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests,bug reports
> > > Oggetto: Re: [MPlayer-users] unreadable ass subtitle file
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Thanks for your answer.
> > "mplayer -v", as far as I remember, didn't showed anything
> > strange, but I'll try again tonight and follow your suggestion.
> > Now that you mention freetype, I'll check if un update
> > occurred between the compilation of the two mplayer's
> > versions I tried and I'll compare my font configuration.
> > Regards,
> > Roberto
>
> It was the font.
> The culprit appears to be "Myriad Pro" (OTF format).
> I first tried removing all my font configuration and regenerating the font
> cache, but without success.
> Then I used "-nofontconfig" on the command line and it worked perfectly.
> Many thanks to Evgeniy and Uoti for the help offered.

It works fine here. Are you using the latest version of MPlayer? What's your 
version of the font? Mine is
a89cf050c859a23e4b6d9cf5989acf9e  MyriadPro-Regular.otf
, 79364 bytes.

> Regards,
> Roberto