Ok, I read about restoring subtitle functionality by switching to fullscreen in #1448234, which gave me an idea. There is nothing wrong with totem or vlc. Yet again its Ubuntu's appmenu that botches up applications. After uninstalling appmenu everything works as expected.
Ok, I read about restoring subtitle functionality by switching to fullscreen in #1448234, which gave me an idea. There is nothing wrong with totem or vlc. Yet again its Ubuntu's appmenu that botches up applications. After uninstalling appmenu everything works as expected.