subtitles not displaying correctly

[heero yuy79]

i am trying to watch a subtitled anime in VLC (latest version updated yesterday)

occasionally there is japanese text that is translated via subtitles at the same time as someone is talking

when this happens one or the other will not display when it should for example if there is a text translation subtitle displayed and someone starts talking the subtitle for the talking will not display and it appears it will only display another subtitle when there are no subtitles on screen (leading to large gaps in me getting anything to do with speech when there is a lot of text in need of translating because the text translations keep happening just before a new speech subtitle is due to be displayed)

i have had a similar issue in the past and i fixed it by playing the file in windows media player but for some reason windows media player is not wanting to play these .mkv files even after i installed CCCP (usually installing CCCP means everything i throw at it works but for some reason it isn't having any of it) (and media player classic has the exact same issues as VLC)

[heero yuy79]

if people are having issue understanding the way i think these subtitles have been done is that there are two "tracks" playing at once the main speech one and a sub track for music and signs and when both want to display things VLC does not appear to be able to display both at once

[arolust]

I watch tons of anime, but never has VLC actually played two subtitles at once, I dont even know how you would go about forcing that.
Perhaps you have hard coded and soft coded sutitles running at the same time? Anyway, what ever the reason...

I can point you to a general post on making VLC choose english subtitles and japanese audio (https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=12067)

Perhaps something in there can help you configure your own settings a little to help.

The best I can think to do is find a way to disable one of the subtitles.