Dear Maintainer,

lines in the SRT subtitle file like the following:

 <font color="cyan">Not really.</font>

are displayed as if there were only the text without any colour specification, i.e.:

 Not really.

− displayed in white; the subtitles are never displayed in any other colour.

(The same SRT file works perfectly with VLC.)

Hello,

(sorry, very late reply)

I can still reproduce with mplayer in unstable (svn38446), however I
suspect that it's another case where the expected behavior is turned off
by default but can be activated with an option.

For instance

mplayer -ass myvideo.mp4

correctly display lines like
<font color="cyan">Not really.</font>
defined in myvideo.srt

The default color for subtitles lines where
there is no <font color="cyan"> becomes yellow.
The default (white) color can be restored with

mplayer -ass -ass-color ffffff00 myvideo.mp4

Regards,
Lorenzo