The following information was taken from https://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html#StrangeBehaviour
If VLC has auto detected your subtitles file, or if you opened it manually, but VLC only displays some subtitles from time to time, you will need to change the subtitles file encoding.
Also, you might need to uncheck the box for DirectX:Use hardware YUV -> RGB conversions.
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