actually, i dont downsample the audio. At least, if I did, I didnt mean to..hehe. but that looks like it was the problem. edit: for some reason, when playing multi-stream OGMs (with subtitle and/or extra audio tracks) the Morgan Stream Switcher and (if with subs) the DVobsub filters are both running. What's the deal with this, and is there a fix? I have a nagging feeling that they're causing the stability problems I've been having with playback (not related to the sample rate which, after checking again, was the problem.) btw i feel stupid for not checking that, despite the fact that I was SURE that I encoded the audio streams properly.