Oddly enough, I think I was having the same issue last night. You are missing a 
symlink to a font, or have not compiled font-config suppport into freevo.

I started to use the svn mplayer about two weeks ago, compiled by hand. I was 
watching an avi which should have had subtitles for 2 minutes in the middle of 
the movie, but they just plain old didn't show.
Then, I noticed hitting the button "o" (which is supposed to Toggle OSD states 
- showing time left to play etc ) didn't work either - the triangle showed up, 
but the time didn't. 

After reconfiguring freevo to debug child apps (DEBUG_CHILDAPP=1 in 
local_conf.py - it changed from "CHILDAPP_DEBUG=1" at some stage) I noticed 
this in my logs :

j...@captainspaulding:/var/log/freevo$ cat mplayer-stderr-1000-1247381546.log
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
j...@captainspaulding:/var/log/freevo$

So, I picked a font and symlinked to it from ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf. I used :

subfont.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf

The other option is to recompile mplayer with font config support. After you do 
this, you may need to add this :


-------- 8< --------
# get a default OSD font from fontconfig

fontconfig = yes
font = "Sans"
subfont-text-scale = 3
-------- 8< --------

Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Well after much playing with Freevo, I have decided that Mplayer is the 
> most flexible player to use for all media including TV.
> For TV the picture quality is far superior with the many post-processing 
> filter options that mplayer provides.
> 
> The only bugbear I have with freevo/mplayer is to do with OSD, no matter 
> what I do I can't get Freevos OSD to display using mplayer.
> At the moment I am using an svn version of mplayer (but the aptitude 
> version didn't work either ..) is there any mplayer options I need to 
> turn on at either
> configure time or at run time that will let mplayer display the Freevo 
> OSD's? How do I debug this.
> 
> I don't even know what the OSD's look like for TV, can someone  send me 
> a screenshot? Has anyone used mplayer for TV? Do you have the same issues?
> 
> (By the way, I have installed kaa.display, and I am using 
> DVBStreamer->LivePause->Mplayer ...)
> 
> Thanks,
> Bernie
> 
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