I had rather old mplayer, but since recently it stopped displaying subtitles. I've been getting "osd text out of range" error in gaupol preview, and from google results on mailing list I see "try with recent" kind of bs responses, so I downloaded latest installer with smplayer, and now mplayer simply crashed with following log presented: D:/Program Files/SMPlayer/mplayer/mplayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo directx, -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -framedrop -nodr -double -wid 263512 -colorkey 0x020202 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles D:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -volume 50 -cache 2000 -osdlevel -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 D:/MOVIES/The Time Machine.avi MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r29355-4.5.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Setting process priority: abovenormal ? ? ? ?Scanning dir D:/WINDOWS/fonts ? ? ? ?Scanning file D:/WINDOWS/fonts/8514fix.fon...done ? ? ? ?Scanning file D:/WINDOWS/fonts/8514fixe.fon...done ? ? ? ?...tons of fonts here... ? ? ? ?Scanning file D:/WINDOWS/fonts/lvnmbd.ttf...done ? ? ? ?Scanning file D:/WINDOWS/fonts/mangal.ttf...done ? ? ? ?Scanning file D:/WINDOWS/fonts/marlett.ttf...done ? ? ? ?Scanning file D:/WINDOWS/fonts/micross.ttf...done (the end) removing the last font finally cured situation, so I am attaching it for you to fix your font parser: http://rapidshare.com/files/333603887/micross.ttf_.html