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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 30 May 2012, at 06:12, Josh <joshf87 at live.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
> 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:

DVD subtitles are pictures, so freetype isn't involved. Good that you could solve it, even if it would be good to know the reason.
I forgot to say that I also only had tested on Linux.