Mplayerosx

Interesting. MPlayer only updates the fontconfig cache when I run it from within XCode (but doesn't crash). So I can replicate something similar to this bug, but under different circumstances. I have no idea why it occurs for me, but something that fixes this bug for me may also resolve your problem.

Can you post your MPlayerOSX.log file? Open Console.app and look in the sidebar on the left. Once you find it, hit Cmd-R to show it in the Finder, then attach it to your reply in this thread.

My log tells me nothing about why fontconfig repeatedly runs for me. Maybe I can update fontconfig... Edit: nevermind I have the most current fontconfig version installed already.

Edit: on second thought there is no reason why my bug would be related to your bug at all. If your fontconfig crashes before it saves the updated cache, then it makes sense that it would have to retry every time you launch the program. In my case MPlayer doesn't crash, so there is likely a different reason why my caches are determined to be invalid when running under XCode.

Well what do you know. I accidentally kept it running in the background while making this post, and just now it flashed up, the fontconfig alert/loadbar gone, and it's fully working again.
It also works fine when I reboot it now.

That's strange, because it did crash, and had the "application is not responding" message and everything.

Thank you for your help, anyway!