Why won't my VobSub come on?

[maca]

I've been converting, encoding, etc, for a while, and pretty much know what's going on. I've often converted avi to mpg using TMPGenc, and if there's a matching subtitle file, the Direct Show filter will make it come on during encoding and create a hard subbed movie. But all of a sudden, the subs won't come on in anything except Windows Media Player. Watching the film with Media Player, I see VobSub's little green arrow in my system tray and I get subs. With my encoder, the arrow appears for less than a second and then disappears, and I get no subs. Has anyone else had this problem? I have no idea why the Direct Show filters aren't giving me my subs in TMPGenc like they've always done before. Anyone know of a setting that could've gotten screwed up to cause this? Thanks in advance.

[celtic_druid]

TMPGEnc doesn't work properly with directvobsub. I'd suggest ffdshow, but TMPGEnc has issues with that to. You could always frameserve with AVISynth.

[maca]

The odd thing is, TMPGenc has always worked fine for me with VobSub, as long as I have DirectShow at the top of the list in the VFAPI settings. Now ALL programs refuse to open VobSub except for Media Player. I recently installed the latest Divx codec; don't know if that could have changed something.

Anyway, I'm now trying Film Machine for the first time. While it seems inexorably slow (10 hours already and 5 to go, it's telling me) at least it lets me load subtitles manually. I also have DVD Lab Pro, and can of course add subs with that, but every time I do that, the subs start drifting and it takes many hours of tweaking the timings until they're right. I'd just rather hardsub the video and get it over with.