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*spots plork and whistles innocently*
Also, make sure that that said MPlayer build is being run through the terminal for detailed output of any and all errors.
I will admit that finding recent builds of MPlayer is tough and compiling it an even greater challenge. However, most distros ship with a build that is sufficient for softsubs.
It is noteworthy though, that updating MPlayer is made much easier on distros that support RPM or DEB packages. The SMPlayer team (namely rvm, the main dev) provides links to up-to-date binaries. Ubuntu offers said binaries through PPA (Personal Package Archives). As for RPM, repos with mplayer can be found if you know where to look.
At any rate, a Linux user should have enough knowledge to do these kinds of things.
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