Even if you use the -slang/-sid/-vobsubid command line option the subtitles are not shown. However If you press on the 'j' key while playing the video and select the desired subtitle then the selected subtitle is shown. I was able to see this behaviour only while playing DVDs. If I execute $ mplayer -sid <whatever> file.mkv (and/or .avi/.ogm) then the subtitles are shown immediately and there is no need to select the desired subtitle using the 'j'-key. I've made a downgrade to media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p25993 and this version works fine. It seems to be a problem with versions greater than p25993 (I've found #214822 which is somehow related with this problem). My USE flags for mplayer: media-video/mplayer cdparanoia divx4linux doc dvdread live mmxext real sse2 theora xvid svga win32codecs aac a52 aalib srt dvdnav debug lame xscreensaver Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =\>media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p26753 2. mplayer -sid <whatever> dvd://1 Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:15:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/export/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc distlocks keepwork metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LC_ALL="C" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm audiofile bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups directfb dri dvd dvdr encode escreen ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gmp gpm gtk gtk2 iconv imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lcms libwww mad maildir midi mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl plotutils png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session sndfile speex spl sqlite sse ssl svg svga tcp tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode vorbis wavpack wmf x86 xml xml2 xorg xprint xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Seems like -sid is a bit flaky ... I'd recommend using -slang instead. Please test and reopen if it's a problem with newer ( 1.0_rc2_p20090731 )
(In reply to comment #1) > Seems like -sid is a bit flaky ... I'd recommend using -slang instead. > > Please test and reopen if it's a problem with newer ( 1.0_rc2_p20090731 ) > The problem seems to be fixed. The subtitles are shown (even for DVDs) using -sid and/or -slang
