VLC skips menu selection screen

[discordance]

So the standard VLC behaviour is to skip straight to the DVD menu, which ordinarily is preferable behaviour than sitting through all the crap publishers put on DVDs, however on certain DVDs (in my case District 9 region 2) there are multiple menus reached from a selection menu. The main difference being one menu launches a clean video track with the other launching the theatrical track with subtitled alien speech. VLC jumps to the menu with the clean track, and it took me sometime to find out how to get the alien only subtitles. This is Sony being crap because the alien subs should just be a different subtitles track but it would be nice if VLC could cope with this better and bring up the menu selection screen.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Can't you access it to the sub tracks in the video menu?

[discordance]

No the only subtitle tracks available are full english, hindi, english CC and english commentary. They've done something weird with the alien only subs, i've not been able to access them at all with vlc, I tried launching all the different titles that start the film but no luck.

I've just tested the disc more thoroughly in WMP while VLC is skipping the menu choice screen that screen doesn't actually affect the subtitles. The film always plays with alien only subtitles when no subtitle track is selected. So the greater problem is VLC fails to render these subtitles.