Bug#523557: mplayer: Subtitles no more working

[Benjamin Cama]

Package: mplayer
Version: 1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1
Severity: normal

Since a recent update, subtitles in mplayer do not work anymore.
When I try to play a movie with subtitles (wether with autodetected subtitles or explicitly set with -sub), they don't show up anymore, with the following message :

New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

Furthermore, their are no more time or any text displayed when asking for playing time progress for example (with the 'o' key).

Searching on the web, a lot of people suggest providing a font with the above name, but mplayer used to work for a long time without this. It should use the 'default' font of the system, or anything that suits it.

benjamin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.26            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libasound2             1.0.19-1          shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.24.0-2          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudio2              1.9.1-5           Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libavcodec52           3:0.svn20090303-1 ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat52          3:0.svn20090303-1 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49            3:0.svn20090303-1 ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                  2.9-7             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcaca0               0.99.beta16-1     colour ASCII art library
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcdparanoia0         3.10.2+debian-5   audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-0      1.2.7-2           direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libesd0                0.2.41-3          Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0            0.10.9-1          Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.3-5         GCC support library
ii  libgif4                4.1.6-6           library for GIF images (library)
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.4-2             A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.0-3          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.14.7-5          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjack0               0.116.1-4         JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblircclient0         0.8.3-3           infra-red remote control support -
ii  liblzo2-2              2.03-1            data compression library
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090404-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0                1.1.3-5           Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libopenal1             1:1.4.272-2       Software implementation of the Ope
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.35-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpostproc51          3:0.svn20090303-1 ffmpeg video postprocessing librar
ii  libpulse0              0.9.14-2          PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-4+b1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsmbclient           2:3.3.2-2         shared library for communication w
ii  libspeex1              1.2~rc1-1         The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.3-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsvga1               1:1.4.3-27        console SVGA display libraries
ii  libswscale0            3:0.svn20090303-1 ffmpeg video scaling library
ii  libtheora0             1.0-2             The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxv1                 2:1.0.4-1         X11 Video extension library
ii  libxvmc1               1:1.0.4-2         X11 Video extension library
ii  libxxf86dga1           2:1.0.2-1         X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii  libxxf86vm1            1:1.0.2-1         X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  mplayer-skin-blue [mpl 1.6-2             blue skin for mplayer
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-3    generic font configuration library
pn  mplayer-doc                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  netselect | fping             <none>     (no description available)
ii  ttf-freefont                  20090104-2 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True

-- debconf information:
  mplayer/voutput: autodetect
  mplayer/ttfont: Sans
  mplayer/cfgnote:
  mplayer/replace-existing-files-bail:
  mplayer/replace-existing-files: false
  mplayer/no-ttfont:
  mplayer/install_codecs:
  mplayer/dvd_device: /dev/cdrom