Movies with soft subtitles not playing

Hi there,
I'm using 2 Apple TVs to stream movies from my Mac Mini running iTunes. Until now movies played without problems (both with hardcoded and soft subtitles), but lately I've converted some HD material to MP4 (using Handbrake) and included soft subtitles (using Subler). These movies play fine in iTunes including subtitles, but when I try to play the movies on AppleTV the subtitles are not showing.
I have set the AppleTV (fw 3.0.1) to select the right language and tried all kinds of things with the subtitles, but the results are the same; everything OK on iTunes, no subtitles on AppleTV.
Anyone has good suggestions?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Maarten.

...I had to see it to believe it, but it worked! Just renamed the file from *.mp4 to *.m4v and all is done!
Many thanks for the tip!
Regards,
Maarten.

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