after I've not been able to get the WinXP version working with subtitles and Win7 was working but too slow I switched back to the original installation of Ubuntu.
Now after a while h264 seems to play just fine but I can't get mplayer to load subtitles neither mkv-internal nor external sub/idx ones.
Trying stuff like (and some more)
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mplayer -alang ger -vobsub FILE -vobsubid 0 FILE.mkv
mplayer FILE.mkv -sub FILE.idx
mplayer FILE.mkv -sub FILE
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mplayer FILE.mkv -alang en -slang eng
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[mkv] Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS) "English", -sid 0, -slang eng
and alike would not work for some reason. Starting through the console I can see an error:
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[mkv] Warning: No BlockDuration for subtitle track found.
SUB: Could not determine file format
Cannot load subtitles: ./FILE.sub
Thanks!