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

[Nicolas George]

Le septidi 17 vendémiaire, an CCXIX, Rashkae a écrit :
> 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.
>
> ass=1 and embeddedfonts=1 are enabled in the mplayer.conf file

I think that's normal: you play non-ASS subtitles with the ASS library, it
bypasses completely the font system of MPlayer itself. You have to define a
style for the AS library with something like
-ass-styles=/home/foo/.mplayer/styles.ass .

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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