Hi, This is my first posting to this list, and unfortunately it's a repeatable bug report. I've used mplayer for nearly all my multimedia needs under debian sid for a long time. Preamble: After deciding that I wish to do some encoding from DVD to Mpeg4 I though that mencoder would do the job, which it does. However I have found some unusual behavior. I updated from CVS on the 6th April 2002 and build mplayer using the debian build process with lame and xvid support (as well as libavcodec). Problem: Subtitles don't work with Libavcodec but to with xvid. using the command: mencoder -dvd 1 -sid 0 -ovc divx4 -divx4opts max_quant=8:min_quant=4 -o blah.avi That gives nice video with nice mplayer subtitles. using the command: mencoder -dvd 1 -sid 0 -ovc lacv -lavcopts vqmax=8:vqmin=4 -o blah2.avi Gives faster rendering time, and no subtitles. I can repeat this many times over, and decided to test it out specifically to file this report. Please help me with this problem. Many Thanks Mike Albon