Subtitle flickering DVD Player 5.4

Was wondering if anyone has heard of any updates to the DVD Player 5.4 subtitle flickering issue? I'm having the exact same issue... that is, subtitles flickering when playing a DVD (player 5.4) that has embedded subtitles used as translated bits of foreign language? Very frustrating. And when I tried to file an Apple bug report, the developer site is apparently off-line.
Also like everyone else, the issue only occurs on DVDs with bits of translated/subtitled dialogue.

Are these subtitles added to a movie in iDVD or to a slideshow in iDVD? What type of presentations is it? If a movie where did it come from? See Bengt Wärleby's post in this topic for items affecting iDVD quality: DVD quality: Apple Support Communities
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
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