While this bug is being looked at, for my ubuntu setup, I installed smplayer2 (currently available via ppa at https://launchpad.net/~smplayer2/+archive/daily ) . And using that one with mplayer2 seems to avoid this fontconfig issue.
While this bug is being looked at, for my ubuntu setup, I installed smplayer2 (currently available via ppa at https:/ /launchpad. net/~smplayer2/ +archive/ daily ) . And using that one with mplayer2 seems to avoid this fontconfig issue.