Problems with MKV+SRT subtitles

[aggressor]

I have been trying to mux Xvid+OGG+SRT subtitles into a single .mkv file but I've been running into problems. Muxing will go fine (I've tried VDubMod and mkvtoolnix), but when I go to play it using Windows Media Player 10, it will load everything but then never begin to play the file. It'll sit at 00:00:00 unless I manually seek to a new spot, but it'll freeze there as well. I've tried both Haalis and Gabests MKV splitters and they both have the same problem. When I disable VSFilter, the files play, but I am without subtitles. Leaving VSfilter installed but not muxing the .srt file also works.

I've tried the same thing except using the OGM container, and everything works fine.

[Sharktooth]

Use Media Player Classic and drop Winbl0ws Media Player...

[aggressor]

I use WMP10 and I would like it to work in it, so that isn't overly helpful :\

[Elic]

aggressor
> When I disable VSFilter, the files play,
I had same troubles with VSFilter old versions and ffdshow. Upgrade it to 2.38 (and/or downgrade ffdshow back to 2004/10/12) solves this problem but introduces other incompatibility: if a directory where .mkv locates has a file with same name and extension ".txt" then VSFilter may crash unpredictedly depending on contents of .txt file. :(

[multicone]

Make sure you dont have the tool 'vobsub' installed, it installed a very old version of vsfilter causing conflicts with WMP 10. Installing new vsfilter doesnt help, old version will still exist and screw playback.