oh it's working now, I just changed the player from mplayer to phonon![hr]
hmmm it's weird, but VLC can show the subtitles (with wrong color and size), but other players can't even show them.
The output is here:

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$ mencoder /home/armin/screenie_xnote.ogv -oac copy -ovc lavc -sub screenie_sub.ssa -o screenie_sub.ogg -subfont-text-scale 3
MEncoder dev-SVN-r27514-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (Family: 15, Model: 67, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

WARNING: OUTPUT FILE FORMAT IS _AVI_. See -of help.
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x9fe94a
Ogg stream 0 is of an unknown type
[Ogg] stream 1: video (Theora v3.2.1), -vid 0
Ogg file format detected.
VIDEO: [theo] 1440x896 24bpp 15.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:18 fourcc:0x6F656874 size:1440x896 fps:15.000 ftime:=0.0667
SUB: Detected subtitle file format: ssa
SUB: Read 8 subtitles.
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[theora @ 0x2e88c60]Missing extradata!
Could not open codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [theora] Theora/VP3
VDec: vo config request - 1440 x 896 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.61:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: libavcodec (1440x896 fourcc=34504d46 [FMP4])
Selected video codec: [theora] vfm: theora (Theora (free, reworked VP3))
==========================================================================
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Pos: 150.2s 2253f (100%) 57.43fps Trem: 0min 8mb A-V:0.000 [500:0]
Flushing video frames.
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.

Video stream: 500.345 kbit/s (62543 B/s) size: 9393975 bytes 150.200 secs 2253 frames
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It says output file format is _AVI_ =S

Transcode into *ogm* rather than ogv. OGM is a container that can keep subtitles (e.g., change "sub_screenie.ogg" to "sub_screenie.ogm", while you are actually making an AVI right now.

I've tried it, got the same results. Though for the sake of assurance I just tried it again now, it doesn't work. works with VLC, not other players.

I see why it's not working.

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New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
 Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
 subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
 New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
 Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).


Copy a TTF font such as DejaVu Sans from /usr/share/fonts or whatever to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf and the problem should go away. mplayer is trying to embed a font, but it's just not there.

ohhh that makes sense. Let me try it![hr]
http://blip.tv/file/1664281/

here it is, works perfectly now.

I copied /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf (I had to mkdir .mplayer)

And take a last look (it's converting to flash as of right now) and tell me how you like it =) I tagged it kde42[hr]
And I won't forget, thanks for mentoring. I learned a whole bunch of new things from this class =D