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I'm watching a DVD--"Red Heat", for the curious, but that's not the only movie with this problem--where some characters speak English and some speak Russian.

VLC gives me two choices: either everybody has subtitles or nobody has subtitles; there seems to be no way at all to have subtitles for the lines that are not in English ONLY.
I'm fairly convinced a DVD player--as in, not my computer--would give just subtitles to just the Russian dialogue, but I cannot make VLC do it.

I've chosen every subtitle option available, whether in the DVD's menus or VLC's various subtitle functions...what's the deal, here?
How do I make this happen? can I make this happen?

Thanks.

The list of options provided by VLC is the list of options within the DVD. If you can't find what you want, it's probably not in the DVD.

I honestly can't believe that.
There have been too many movies with foreign dialogue mixed in with the English that don't have subs exclusively for the foreign stuff to think for a moment that the problem isn't with VLC somehow.

You know how it is: the terrorists or bad guy army starts speaking in their home language while we see them in their command center or whatever, and we read what they're saying. Then the good guy who speaks English drops in unexpectedly and starts shouting at them in English and we don't get subs. That's happened in so very many movies...and VLC never shows the subtitles. Like, ever.

The one factor that hasn't changed is VLC.

And I can't believe that it is not the case until I see a patch demonstrating it.

If I put a DVD in a regular player and it behaves as expected, but it does not in VLC no matter what I do, how would you explain it?

Does it work in any other libdvdnav-based player?

I have never heard that term before.

So, here'z the thing: I downloaded and installed GOM Player and started "Red Heat"...and it worked exactly as expected: English subtitles for the dialogue that was in Russian, no subtitles for the dialogue in English.
And that was without turning anything on in the subtitle menu.

So, one way or another, VLC is screwing up.