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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

sindi keesan wrote: 
 
> v is supposed to toggle subtitle visibility and it does not seem to work. 
 
You may need to use Shift+F to force subtitles on. But in any case you 
need to install fonts first. See below. 
 
> DVD number 3 (dvd://1) would play for about 10 seconds yesterday then give 
> me a black screen.  Same thing happened today.  Ctrl-C exits.  There are 
> two titles.  I discovered this after typing dvd://1-3.  I am now seeing 
> the second part of this DVD.  q is not working here at all, or ESC (in X) 
> or Ctrl-C. 
>  
>  
> Probably the first two DVDs that worked with dvd://1 had just one 'title'. 
>  
> How do I get at the subtitles?  Everything else is now working perfectly 
> and I can if I want skip past the warnings. 
 
You need to install subtitle fonts (I did not include any). Go to the 
downloads section of the MPlayer site <www.mplayerhq.hu> and download 
the appropriate font for the language you are trying to view. The 
Western European package has a README inside which says to copy the 
files from one of the subdirectories (depending on desired size) to 
/usr/local/share/mplayer/font/. There is some more scant information 
at the documentation section of the MPlayer website. Once I installed 
the fonts, the on-screen display started working. I still can't figure 
out how subtitles work. I will try various settings and report back. 
 
> mplayer says it can work with svgalib but David seems not to have compiled 
> for it. 
 
I don't currently have a development copy of svgalib. 
 
> Would that take less cpu than vesa?  
 
I don't think so. 
 
> It would work with more video cards. 
 
Yes. It may be included with the next version of MPlayer, sometime in the 
distant future. 
 
David 

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