Forced Subtitles in M2TS - Blu-ray Ripped to HDD

[saber001]

Hi all

I have a problem that i can't see to find a solution for.

I ripped my copy of Ronin last night to my Media Center HDD. I use TSmuxer to copy the m2ts file to my HDD (no compression)
In the process i usually leave all the eng pgs streams and just the eng audio.

My problem is that i found out that one of the pgs streams is actually subtitles for the non english speaking bit of the movie. IE forced subtitles.
I have never seen this before on blu-ray, usually these typs of subs are hard encoded into the video stream.

My questions is how do you force these to play in the m2ts container. I now i can use bdsup2sub to convert them but how do you ad them back into the m2ts file and force them to be displayed.

Am i correct in assuming that at this stage there is no codec that will natively display sup subtitles, they have to be converted??

Many thanks for you help.

[Baldrick]

HOW do you play the m2ts? If a htpc you can use vsfilter or ffdshow to display external subs but if you have media center that does not support that you probably have to reconvert and add hard/burned in subs in the m2ts.

[saber001]

Thanks
I have K-lite codec pack installed.
m2ts files are played via Vista Media Centre. It sees it as a normal video file.

how am i able to force the subtitles to show for only for that movie. can they be read straight from the m2ts file (sup) or do i need to re encode the subtitles into another format.

I would really like to be able to just keep it all in the m2ts container and not have to have seperate files for the subtitles.

Thanks again for the assistant.

[Baldrick]

I don't think it's possible without reconverting and BURN in the subs. You could use xvid4psp, open the m2ts, load the subtitle, convert to a new m2ts, ts h264.

[saber001]

If i dont' try to hard encode them back in.
What are my other options for playing them if i convert the sup file to sub/idx and just leave the files in the same directory as the m2ts file.

When i play back the movie is there a way to force the subtitles to play via this method.