Usually what I did this: mplayer -slang en dvd://12-40 I got first available English subtitles, it's not working anymore. ========================================================================= mplayer -v -slang en dvd://12 MPlayer dev-SVN-r27802-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 6, Stepping: 4) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf' Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Using built-in default codecs.conf. Configuration: CommandLine: '-v' '-slang' 'en' 'dvd://12' init_freetype font: can't open file: ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf Cannot load bitmap font: ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay get_path('fonts') -> '/root/.mplayer/fonts' Using nanosleep() timing get_path('input.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/input.conf' Parsing input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf Input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 1 binds get_path('12.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/12.conf' Playing dvd://12. get_path('sub/') -> '/root/.mplayer/sub/' URL: dvd://12 Reading disc structure, please wait... There are 28 titles on this DVD. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. DVD successfully opened. audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128. audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 129. number of audio channels on disk: 2. subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: en subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: en subtitle ( sid ): 3 language: nl subtitle ( sid ): 4 language: nl subtitle ( sid ): 5 language: el subtitle ( sid ): 6 language: hi number of subtitles on disk: 7 DVD start cell: 0 pack: 0x0-0x224C1 DVD start=0 end=732282 STREAM: [null] dvd://12 STREAM: Description: DVD stream STREAM: Author: STREAM: Comment: Selected DVD subtitle channel: 0 language: en DVD Seek! lba=0x0 cell=0 packs: 0x0-0x224C1 Angle-seek synced by cell/vob IDN search! system stream synced at 0xD (13)! ==> Found video stream: 0 MPEG-PS file format detected. ==> Found audio stream: 128 Searching for sequence header... OK! VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 8456.0 kbps (1057.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.000 ftime:=0.0400 get_path('sub/') -> '/root/.mplayer/sub/' X11 opening display: :0.0 vo: X11 color mask: FFFFFF (R:FF0000 G:FF00 B:FF) vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display) [x11] Unknown wm type... [x11] Current fstype setting doesn't honour any X atoms [VO_XV] Using Xv Adapter #0 (NV17 Video Texture) [xv common] Drawing no colorkey. [xv common] Maximum source image dimensions: 2046x2046 Opening video filter: [pp] [vo] query(Planar YV12) -> 3 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6. Trying filter chain: pp vo Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling) Trying filter chain: scale pp vo The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family INFO: libavcodec init OK! Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2) ========================================================================== [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6. AutoQ: setting quality to 6. ========================================================================== [... audio stuff ...] Starting playback... ==> Found audio stream: 129 Increasing filtered audio buffer size from 0 to 65536 [ffmpeg] aspect_ratio: 1.777778 VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6. Trying filter chain: pp vo VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO Config (720x576->1024x576,flags=5,'MPlayer',0x32315659) REQ: flags=0x437 req=0x0 VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12 [fs] [zoom] VO: Description: X11/Xv VO: Author: Gerd Knorr <kraxel at goldbach.in-berlin.de> and others Xvideo image format: 0x32595559 (YUY2) packed Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar Xvideo image format: 0x59565955 (UYVY) packed Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar using Xvideo port 275 for hw scaling [xv-fs] dx: 0 dy: 152 dw: 1280 dh: 720 [xv] dx: 0 dy: 152 dw: 1280 dh: 720 *** [pp] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes [mpeg2video @ 0x882dc30]ac-tex damaged at 14 7 [mpeg2video @ 0x882dc30]Warning MVs not available [mpeg2video @ 0x882dc30]concealing 1305 DC, 1305 AC, 1305 MV errors [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1280 dh: 1024 [xv-fs] dx: 0 dy: 152 dw: 1280 dh: 720 *** [pp] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes *** [vo] Direct Rendering mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes get_path('subfont.ttf') -> '/root/.mplayer/subfont.ttf' Unicode font: 659 glyphs. get_path('subfont.ttf') -> '/root/.mplayer/subfont.ttf' Unicode font: 659 glyphs. *** [pp] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes ==> Found subtitle: 0 ==> Found subtitle: 1 ==> Found subtitle: 3 ==> Found subtitle: 5 ==> Found subtitle: 6 ==> Found subtitle: 2 ==> Found subtitle: 4 [postproc @ 0x88d0388]using npp filters 0x7/0x7 [...] -- Is it weird in here, or is it just me? -- Steven Wright