There is no .srt in this case. This is also not about bitmap dvd vobsubs.

Man I remember when dvds were a new thing. The sixth sense was the first dvd I ever bought. dvds used to have interactive menus, Easter eggs, multiple behind the scenes documentaries and videos, photos and info on the production.
Now you buy a blu ray and it goes straight to the movie, no menu, no features, no bts footage, just the movie and nothing else.

Legal ownership, that is

There are non-region locked DVD players.

Very fair, this comment is likely a result of me not being able to do that this week. But I have ploughed through hours of dishwashers, EV brakes and rice cookers in a day before.

I did have one for a while but it broke and DVD isn't really high enough quality to watch any more anyway. Though I do feel like my PlayStation should play them which it doesn't.

Blu Ray players too. I have a Sony BPX 370, and it will play any (non 3D or 4k) Blu Ray or DVD from anywhere in the world.

The top Youtube comment by Ridley Combs explains it pretty well:

FFmpeg maintainer here, and the details behind the caption decoding issues you're seeing in VLC are complex and horrific. They largely stem from how the EIA-608 caption format expects text to be laid out in a monospace grid onscreen, which isn't really how the text rendering stacks used for modern subtitling work (this is probably why changing the font caused problems on those Sony players); beyond that, the behavior can just end up pretty complex, and there's no convenient public-domain corpus of sample files for open-source software developers to test against. These kinds of issues also affect the Japanese (ARIB) and European (Teletext) formats to varying extents. These days, a lot of the focus ends up being on converting the text into modern Unicode text formats, styled using modern techniques, so direct rendering of the legacy formats hasn't had as much attention lately.

Got to get the special edition for that extra $tuff.

In those situations I usually enable 1.5x.