mkvmerge burns IDX/SUB subtitles??!?

[vmrsss]

Hi there,

Well, this sounds so crazy that I am embarrassed to ask. Yet...

I have quite a few encodings from a DVB source consisting of (x264 encoded) h264 video, aac audio and idx/sub subtitles merged together by mkvmerge.

I now find that on some of these the (the outline of the) idx/sub appears burned in the video, that is if I mvkextract the h264 stream from the mux and I play it, the subtitles are still there! (but in black/white, no colors).

I'm ready to swear those subs were not in the m2v source, and have not been hardcoded by x264. Then, no matter hoe crazy I'm wondering: Can a bug in mkvmerge around version 3.1.0--3.2.0 have caused this?

thanks

[vmrsss]

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can an administrator pls remove this thread, this is seriously crazy rubbish. sorry about it.

the only possible explanation that in the cases where this has happened I must have used a filter (eg to deinterlace via mplayer/yadif) that inadvertently piped the subtitles together the video to x264...

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