在fedora 9上使用mplayer总是出现如下错误，没法看片。
Selected font is not scalable. Using ppem=15. FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes failed. Wrong bounding box, width <= 0 ! Cannot prepare subtitle font.
后来查到是在/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf里面fontconfig设置为yes，而相应的font为Sans。要解决这个问题，只要把font设置为一个fc-list命令返回的字体名即可。下面是我的~/.mplayer/config配置文件的内容
subcp="cp936" font="文鼎PL中楷Uni,AR PL ZenKai Uni"
刚看到了，怎好遇到，没想到你已经解决了
Thank you for the post. Out of all the google search results, this is the only method that works for me.
Also, for some unknown reason, the font="xxx" line must be set in ~/.mplayer/config. Setting it in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf doesn't work.