[MPlayer-users] DVD subtitles only appear for a split second

[Josh]

On 5/29/2012 16:40, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 09:36:06PM -0400, Josh wrote:
>> I accidentally made a reply to another posting sorry.
>>
>> In DVDs, the subtitles only appear briefly.  Throughout a movie
>> every time it displays a new line it only appears for a split
>> second.  It happens on either ripped DVDs or straight from disc and
>> happens on every DVD and different systems. I use SMPlayer (making
>> MPlayer for SMPlayer), but I ran MPlayer directly from command
>> prompt and it still had the same problem. The last MPlayer I built
>> that I have that works with DVD subtitles is r34835 and whatever
>> ffmpeg was released at the same time. Here's the output but I don't
>> think it would be too helpful: http://pastebin.com/JLCi0guL
>>
>> Using MinGW/Windows, MPlayer r34971 .
>>
>> I wonder if anyone is having the same problem in their builds.
> I can say it works fine for my test DVD, latest SVN MPlayer and a
> few days old FFmpeg.
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It's an issue with the latest freetype 2.4.9, possibly. I was able to 
disable Freetype in SMPlayer and it works correctly now. These builds 
with freetype 2.4.9 didn't work either: 
http://www.spirton.com/mplayer-mencoder-subjunk-build/