mplayer and subtitles

[Sirber]

Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

I'm on windows, how can I do that? I tryed the -font param but it doesn't work.

[celtic_druid]

1. Download a font from mplayerhq and unpack to mplayer/font
2. edit your config file and add font="x:\winnt\fonts\Arial.ttf" or similar
3. Load via command line as you were trying.

I'd go with #1 or 2.
For 2 you probably also want to play with subfont-text-scale.
Since you can't do ln -s in windows you could probably copy a font instead, assuming it looks in /mplayer/subfont.tff since there is no ~.

[Sirber]

-font "%SystemRoot%\fonts\Arial.ttf"

fixed it! thanks!