On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 20:58 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > I have a strange problem with mplayer currently. It's been doing this > for a while, but I have not found any pattern or solution for the > behaviour. Some mkvs play fine yet others do not use the right fonts. > I've checked with mkvinfo and the file attachments are there. I've even > installed the fonts to /usr/share/fonts and rebuilt the global font > cache and it still doesn't work. What's the actual font name contained in those .ttf files? That's the correct way to determine whether the font matches; other methods are at most fallbacks.