Subtitles are not getting displayed while playing movies

Hello, Ravi & welcome to the forums.

Lucida Grande is included with Mac OS X.

Check and validate all of your fonts with Apple's Font Book (look in the Applications folder). Search for Lucida Grande to be sure it was properly installed. Find and remove duplicates as well.

Also, don't hesisate to perform wholesale deletion of old and/or little used fonts - be skeptical of anything that has come from Office 2008, including those related to an Equation Editor installation.

Finally, be sure all the apps you are using are compatible with SnowLeopard. Check with their authors for updates.

Yes, I experience the same problem after upgrading to Snow Leopard as well.

Prior to this, it works perfectly.

And Ravi was right, there is Lucida Grande.ttf, but there's no LucidaGrande.dfont, which the VLC player is trying to look for.

Guys,

Please visit this link:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=64336&p=215412

Apparently there is an issue between VLC & Snow Leopard, but VLC is solving this in their next version.

I solved this problem by copying the LucidaGrande file with the .ttf extension and then just renaming it as a .dfont file and inserting it into the same directory. Hope it goes as smoothly for you as it did for me!

I have the exact same problem... 😟
unfortunately i deleted some duplicates fonts and now my dashboard-notes have changed their font to helvetica instead of the standard handwritten font (forgot its name)... 😟 me soo sad!

an.apple.a.day's solution works. If you go into your System/Library/fonts file and find LucidaGrande.ttf, make a copy to your desktop. Once it's on your desktop, you can rename it simply by changing the ending to "dfont" from "ttf". You can then drag that back into the same fonts file that you made the copy from. It will ask you for authentication and confirmation with administrator password, and then you're good to go! I use VLC and this definitely solved the problem with VLC for me.