Unidentified codec: VLC could not identify the audio or video codec

My default media player on Debian 11 is VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)

When playing recorded videos (MKV container) I would get the error message.
Is this "Error" message fault on part of VLC or has it got something to do with settings of my TVH?

I think it does not like the "S_DVBSUB" as the subtitles are not working when I turn them on and the error msg. comes on again:

Unidentified codec: VLC could not identify the audio or video codec

The same file would play OK with mpv 0.32.0 ( Debian 11 ) and show the subtitles correctly.

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RE: Unidentified codec: VLC could not identify the audio or video codec - Added by Dave Pickles over 3 years ago

The Tvheadend source has this comment at https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/blob/master/src/muxer/muxer_mkv.c#L1565

VLC has no support for MKV S_DVBSUB codec format

The commit that introduced the comment (and the code which ignores subtitles when the viewer is VLC) references this VLC bug:

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/14577

It seems the bug will finally be squashed in VLC 4.0.

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