Forced subtitles not found, merged with English sub?

[beewizzard]

I'm trying to rip my Blu-Ray of Ghost in the Shell (1995) but am having issues with the forced English subtitles. I know for a fact that the opening screen of the movie has forced subtitles for the English translation of the Japanese you see on-screen, regardless of whether or not you have English subtitles turned on. But when I go to rip the movie, I encounter this error:

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AV sync issue in stream 4 at 0:00:00 : Forced subtitles track #4 turned out to be empty and was removed from output file

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When I go to watch the .mkv output file on VLC, the forced subtitles for the opening scene only show if I enable English subtitles. Is there a way to fix this?

[Woodstock]

Not really - those were not tagged as "forced" in the source, so MakeMKV did not separate them out.

It is possible to extract the English subtitle track and edit a copy of it to make your own, and merge that back in to the MKV, but that is a pain.

[Chetwood]

Mmh, can't remember this but if there's no track with forced subs only and the forced items are in the English tracked but not flagged as forced, how does the BD player know how to play back the items?