[MPlayer-users] Weird subtitle displayed incorrectly by mplayer

[Horváth Ágoston János]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 14:54, Clément Bœsch <ubitux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm running mplayer r32161 from SVN. The attached subtitle file
>> displays incorrectly when used; instead of just the text, it displays
>> each whole line on the screen.
>> The same file works well with vlc.
>
> I can't reproduce the issue. Can you try latest SVN? Are you using the
> -ass switch? Can you provide a screenshot anyway?

Hmm. It was muxed into an .mkv, so I did not add any arguments.
This '-ass' argument was not known to me. Why is there a specific flag
for a specific type of subtitle? I'd have never expected that, all the
subtitles worked with '-sub' so far.

Agoston