Perhaps many of you wonder how to change the default font for your MPlayer under linux.
The default fonts the player uses are the system ones. Unfortunately, they do not recognize some special characters that every non-english language has.
In order to make it work, you need to change the default font the player uses.
Here are the steps you need to take:
1. Download the proper fonts for your language.
Here are some default fonts from the site of MPlayer:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/
The font type should be as the ones there and should have the same number/type of files.
2. Make sure you are logged to Terminal with the user that you will use the MPlayer with and go to:
cd ~/.mplayer
3. mkdir fonts
4. Copy the fonts to this folder.
5. Restart the MPlayer.
Note: You have to select the proper encoding for the subtitles in order to make them work.
