On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 08:47 +0100, Roberto Malinverni wrote: > I'm trying to play a mkv that comes with a subtitle track in "ass" format. > Both mplayer SVN-r29996 (with internal ass library) and mplayer git-c3c0309 > (with an up-to-date ass library) give: > > [ass] no charmap autodetected, trying the first one > > and instead of the subtitles, a line of strange gliphs is displayed (all the > file become "strange gliphs"...). > The subtitles file is UTF-8 encoded, if that matters, and I couldn't find > anything strange in it. > I already tried to demux/remux the matroska, with no effect. > Does someone have a clue? Do the subtitles contain ASCII characters or only non-ASCII ones? If they do contain ASCII but even that is not properly displayed then it could be a problem with the font. Does the file contain embedded fonts? If so then does -noembeddedfonts change the behavior? Any further tests will be easier to do if you post a sample. If the problem occurs without using the particular embedded fonts in the file then just the subtitle track extracted with mkvextract should be enough to reproduce it.
