I'm french and i watch videos in english with french subtitles embedded. So, the subtitle language is not identified. I would like to mention the subtitle language used without renaming the names of my files. Also, for audio that would be great Thx

The Language information comes from several sources and there is no 3 ways about it. For External Subtitles (srt files) you have to rename the end to include the 2 or 3 letter language code. For Embedded Tracks, Subtitle or Audio, the language track has to be set accordingly https://support.plex.t…

Thank you for your quick response and always precise but I posted in the "feature" category of this forum to do a changing request. In fact, I know the manuals alternatives to solve my problem but the best is to ask you to manage this automatically. Also, I do not want to have to do that for ev…

Thank you for your quick response and always precise but I posted in the "feature" category of this forum to do a changing request. In fact, I know the manuals alternatives to solve my problem but the best is to ask you to manage this automatically. Humm.. good point.. forgot what forum I was in. :…

Hello thx for your response. :) If I understand correctly, when I add a video on my server: 1 - The video is analyzed to know the details (sound, subtitles, languages ...) 2 - Then the metadata of video are uploaded. (image, film director, teasers ...) Now, if I add the function I request (aut…

Humm.. good point.. forgot what forum I was in. :) Problem is that one way or another, you are going to have to tag every track anyways - might as well do it at the file level. Might be wrong here, but think the OP has the following request...... If a subtitle language (Embedded or not) can…

Might be wrong here, but think the OP has the following request...... If a subtitle language (Embedded or not) can't be detected, then set it to what's stored in a user setting, instead of setting it to unknown? /T Yes, exactly no subtitles language --> create a new setting to allow all vi…

Yes, exactly no subtitles language --> create a new setting to allow all videos tagged "unknown" to be tagged with a specified language no audio language --> create a new setting to allow all videos tagged "unknown" to be tagged with a specified language and create a new setting (To enable or…

Now that you put it that way this actually seems fairly logical. "MultiSub" or "Multi Audio" files tend to be correctly labeled. The only time it is "Unknown" is if there is only one audio track/subtitle in which case it can be assumed that it is my preferred language (else why would I have it?). …

I do also vote for this feature, I have many files with audio and subs tagged as unknown..... no way I re-encode everything, please

Based on your original topic, there is still a problem with this request for your situation. You have subtitles that are hard coded (burned into the video). Plex does not detect this as a subtitle so in this case it would not even show "unknown", it will just be completely blank and not even indic…

Manually changing the field "subtitle" when "unknown"

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Manually changing the field "subtitle" when "unknown"

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