Subtitle Workshop Acting Weird

[Startropic1]

I'm running Subtitle Workshop 2.51 on Windows XP Pro. Yesterday I encountered the problem with having no video in the subtitle preview window, so I uninstalled all codecs and installed the latest version of the K-Lite Codec Pack, then my video preview started working again. Now I'm having another problem, I'm seeing two sets of subtitles in the preview window one on top of the other. The subs on top are the way they're supposed to look but when I play the video in an external player I see the subs that appear in my preview underneath the other subs and these are displaying incorrectly (same colour outline etc, making the subs difficult to read.) I was also having difficulty getting the transparent background to work, I was getting either black or grey background depending on whether or not I had transparent background checked or not.

[lowellriggsiam]

It appears you have vobsub installed, click on vobsub and disable the subtitles.

[Startropic1]

It appears you have vobsub installed, click on vobsub and disable the subtitles.

I only have DirectVobSub

Edit: Ah, figured out out. Had to check "hide subtitles" under misc in DirectVobsub.

EditEdit: Now another problem, when I play the video in VLC the subs look different than they do in Subtitle Workshop, and they don't show up at all when I play the video in WMP or the jetAudio player (and both programs have subs on by default.)

[MilesAhead]

Try VLC Tools => Preferences => Subtitles. You can change the font attributes for the subs.

[Startropic1]

I ended up just switching to aegisub, where I was able to fix the subs.