On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > What is the problem with the ass support in mplayer? It works fine > for me with the current SVN HEAD. However, afaik, there is a > pending patch for -ass support in mencoder; perhaps, this issue > should be overviewed. Ah there was some effort to make lavf the default demuxer for .mkv, but that didn't play nice with ass. I lost track of whether lavf is now the default demuxer for mkv or not, and whether the issues with ass and lavf have been fixed yet or not. I suspect libmpdemux is back as default.