rip to DVDR, quick IFOedit Question

[defense]

I just used IFOedit for the first time to prevent the encoding process I have been having mixed results with. I know I can cut out all of the extras and hope to get A DVD to DVDR in certain situations. I don't care about menus, subtitles, extra, trailers, etc...so I should be able to sacrifice all of that all of the time. I like when I put the movie in, it starts up and I watch it. Well that it exactly what I just did with MIB-II. The movie was 6.15 GB, and when I ripped out all the extras, etc, I got it down to 3.5 GB's or so. My question is that although I really don't care for subtitles, if I can keep the English version in certain cases, I would like to, just in case I can't make out what someone is saying or the subtitles aren't "hardcoated." Like on Attack of the Clones from what i've read. But My question is that I just kept the english 6 channel audio track from MIB-II and the English subtitles, and when I put it in my standalone player, and hit subtitles, it shows the subtitle "ENGLISH" and that is it, so I know it only retained the English subtitle, but the subtitle NEVER comes on. Can anyone explain why that is? I would appreciate it. Thanks

[roach76]

I have heard of this sometimes when there is 2 english or same language subtitle streams where one is normal subs and the other is the 'forced' subs. You may, without extra detail I can't be sure, have ripped the forced subs instead, which may have only a few lines of subtitles in it.

[defense]

thanks for the response. Do you know if there is a way of knowing which is forced and which is regular? You are right about different English Options, IFOedit actually defaulted to that one so I thought it was correct. I knew the audio was AC3 dolby dighital because it was 0x80. Maybe that is why I got the size of the movie down from 6.15 GB
to about 3.5 GB.

[dickrichards2000]

When I did MIBII I kept all of the subs and all of the english audio tracks and it still fits on one DVDR. You may just want to do it over if it matters that much to you though you might as well rip the commentary, it isn't worth the extra 20 seconds it takes to burn it.