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I have a DVD of a film that I want to convert to MP4. The DVD is in French and has both French and English subtitles. I can convert it without subtitles fine but if I include Subtitles in the conversion (from the Profiles settings tab), all I can do is turn Subtitles on in which case I get both the French and English subtitle tracks overlaid on each other. There is no option in the Profile tab to choose a particular language. I also tried various combinations of the Open Media > Disc > Audio & Subtitles > Subtitle track spin box but this had no effect.
If I just play the DVD from VLC then the main menu Subtitle lists the French and English subtitles and I can select and show just the one I want.

Is there a way to select a specific language track in Convert as there is in Playback?

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the conversion, keep the messages window open and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com or on Justpaste.it if it's too long.

Log of a small (2min) conversion. This has Subtitles on in the Profile and the resulting mp4 has both English & French subtitles overlaid on each other.

https://pastebin.com/GqSQ9vMy

Well, I don't know what is going wrong there. Maybe a dev will check this and explain it, fingers crossed.

Thanks for looking!

Thanks for the pointer, that seems to have fixed it. I used the Convert Wizard with the added options :no-sout-all :sub-track=1

However the fact that you have to say "It is quite confusing for ordinary users using Converting wizard" implies to me that the Wizard has failed to do it's job. The whole point of a wizard is to remove possible confusion for ordinary users. In this case the Profile dialog that turns on no-sout-all really should have a dropdown that allows selection of all or a specific sub-track as is done in the main Subtitles menu.