Media Player Classic + M2TS embedded subtitles on Win 7 freezes video

[Polaris75]

Hi all,

Sorry if this has been addressed already, I've searched and googled and searched and googled to no avail ...


I'm backing up my HD-DVD library before all my readers die and I'm left with thousands of dollars in shiny coasters, and I'd like to backup the subtitles in everything as well just in case I ever need them.

Video and audio is going great. Pretty much straight from disc to drive with Ripbot264 and AnyDVD-HD, CQ 18 on the video and stream copy for the audio.

Ripbot for some reason isn't seeing the subtitles on the disc, so I used EVOdemux to get out the sup files, and am able to load them into my Ripbot project with no issues. The final product, an M2TS (via the AVCHD option and then just grabbing it out of the stream directory) comes out with my 264 video, DD+ audio and 3 subtitle streams. I can't seem to view the subtitle streams in anything though. I've tried every renderer option there is in MPC, and when I go to Navigate -> Subtitle Language and select one, the video freezes, or with some renderers just goes black. If I convert the sup to an srt and load it externally it works fine, but I really don't want to have ~3 subtitle files and a video file for every item in my media library when they can just be embedded. Especially when in the future I may burn some of this content to AVCHD discs and then I'll just have to reverse the process to put them back into the M2TS file I'm sure.

And while I'm picking everyone's brains, another little issue that is getting under my skin: When I load up the EVO for ripping Ripbot sees all the chapters and I'm selecting them, yet my finished M2TS does not appear to have chapter marks. Is that a shortfall of Ripbot? Or am I doing something wrong maybe?

Thanks.