T wrote: > please run > > env | grep -E "LANG|LC_" > > Mine is: > > LC_MESSAGES= > LANG=C > > I found that's important to mplayer. $env | grep -E "LANG|LC_" LC_ALL=en_US.iso885915 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915 LANG=en_US.iso885915 LANGUAGE=us that's grml default, but i used LC_ALL=de_DE , too on other systems.