When playing the file having later starting DVB subtitles with Kodi (either directly the file or through TVheadend client), Kodi does not show DVB subtitles and I can not choose subtitles from the video player subtitle menu (not even when trying it after playing video for about one minute). Kodi should show DVB subtitles even though they don't start right at the beginning of the file because VLC can also do this. Here is a clear and concise description of what was expected to happen: And when tvheadend produces MPEG-TS file from this kind of foreign language program, the file might have later starting DVB subtitles. English, there is DVBSUB stream but it is sent only when the foreign language program starts and the DVBSUB stream continues to exist until the foreign language program ends.

So if the program spoken language is native Finnish, there is usually no DVBSUB stream. They seem not to send DVB subtitle stream constantly but only when a program starts which has subtitles. This is quite common here in Finland with provider YLE channels. I tried to play the same MPEG-TS file in Ubuntu with VLC 3.0.4 and Kodi 17.6 and with those I was able to see DVB subtitles from this recording. Kodi 18.1 does not show these later starting DVB subtitles when playing the recording. The file contains DVB subtitle stream which does not start at the first second of the file but only after 10 seconds from the beginning. I have MPEG-TS (*.ts) file (recorded from TV using tvheadend). Here is a clear and concise description of what the problem is:

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