|  About Me  |  Blogs  |  Photos  |  Publications  |  Resume  | 

MPlayer not showing subtitle file

Symptom: MPlayer found the subtitle file but was not showing subtitles during playback. It gave the error message:

Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

Fix: apt-get install mplayer-fonts.

One Response to “MPlayer not showing subtitle file”

  1. chris de L Says:

    I solved the problem with chang the font preference from sans to nothing.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.