Grey subs when muxed in MKV, external subs are fine

[Kim Jespersen]

I have a strange problem. Some of my DVD -> MKV conversions comes out with grey subs when muxed in the MKV file. I then removed the subs from the MKV and loaded the IDX/SUB externally and the subs were fine, white with black borders.

I then thought it was fine and remuxed the IDX/SUB into the MKV file but then, they were back to grey with white border.

What might be wrong?

TIA

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Try VLC 1.0.0

[Kim Jespersen]

Thx for the answer. I updated to 1.0 but it didn't work, still grey bold subtitles with white borders and in fact I got new problems.
1. When I turn the subtitles on, it seems to do an off-scale with a black bar in the top of the picture.
2. I can't load external IDX/SUB

So I'm bumping it back to 9.6 but thx for the answer
I can only hope the subtitles is only a problem in VLC but I think I'll try to ask on the Matroska forum as well.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

2. what?

[Kim Jespersen]

It won't load external subtitle files or at least it won't load the files for that one specific movie right now, where I have the grey subs problem.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Can you paste VLC message and verbosity set to 2?