I dunno, external subtitles work for me in Feisty's version and svn. I believe this has been fixed by now.
** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu)
Status: Needs Info => Fix Released
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mplayer doesn't load subtitles
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62645
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