you might consider abandoning "legacy" subtitle font in favor of fontconfig. Remove svn? just remove mplayer binary, but that's not the best idea. I'd update to recent version using svn, set up my favorite (hebrew) font name as subtitle font using config (font="generic name"), set -sub-cp=windows-1255 and it should be working like charm. -- Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- D.E. Knuth