Subtitles always appear, even if the if Parole is set not to play them (Video->Subtitles->None). It can be "fixed" by deleting the vid's .str files if present but if the subtitles are compressed within file there is no apparent solution. Linux Xubuntu 14.04 x86_64 Parole 0.6.1
*** Bug 11277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm pretty sure we meanwhile fixed this problem (and forgot to close the report) because I cannot reproduce it anymore... Please reopen if you still can in the latest release.