video squashed when using subtitles in matroska movie

[bokus70]

I made my first mkv+ogg movie, just to try it out. I like it alltogether but there's one constant problem with subs. Whether I embedd the subs in the movie, or I load it externally, the picture gets squashed vertically by some 10-20%. I noticed it happens because of the vsfilter (I am using 2.33) - ffdshow sub display works OK, no squashing, but I don't like it because I just can't make damn subs to drop below the video, no matter what I do (and there are some strange color artifacts on the subs too).

It's like vsfilter makes room for the subs and squashes the video to put the subs below.

I am using zoom player 4, gabest's matroska splitter, vsfilter 2.33 and ffdshow from May 20th 2004.

Needless to say that I never had this problem with avi files.

[bokus70]

I just made some tests with other players, and it seems that zoom player is to blame. For instance, media player 6.4 plays everything like it should.

In order to make things right in ZP, I have to fiddle with the aspect ratio and stuff.

Does anybody know why is this happening?

[tedgo]

Go to VSFilter configuration and set on "General"-Tab the "Vertical Padding" to "Original Height" instead of "Extend to 16:9".

EDIT:
This problem only occurs with players that are able to use the Matroska-AR-Flag (like ZoomPlayer or TCMP).

[bokus70]

You were right, after the change it all looks like it should. But now I have subs on the video (of course), and not below it. Is there some way to remedy this for good?

What is the use for this matroska AR flag? I mean, is this behavior normal (zoom and tcmp) or not?