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

[Josh]

On 5/30/2012 02:20, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>
> 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.
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I found what the difference was. The subtitles appear briefly when using 
dvd menus (dvdnav://) but not dvd://. I was using dvdnav to test in 
command-line, had not re-enabled them in SMPlayer. It occurs in my 
newest build and at least "Subjunk" SB32. My r34835 build doesn't have 
this issue with dvdnav://.