I downloaded the .ISO version of a Rifftrax movie, and converted it to .MKV with Handbrake. I named the audio tracks Rifftrax and Original, but in PMS, they’re showing up as English and unknown. VLC recognizes the names fine. Any way to fix this?!
You need to use something to edit the language of the second track in the header, as that is currently not set, for it to not show as unknown. I use MKVtoolNix GUI which has a nice header editor section to allow you to easily do that.
Regarding the actual names, Plex doesn’t use those, but you can see that info by clicking on the breadcrumbs icon (3 dots) for the movie, click on more info and that will show you the media info for the file and you’ll get the track title in there.
Unfortunately this is how Plex handles it and I don’t think there will be a change in that anytime soon.
-Shark2k
Well that stinks. Know of any program that lets you manually specify the language (like type it, as opposed to using a drop-down)? In theory that would accomplish this.
Yeah I agree and made my thoughts known.
If your file is a MKV, you can edit everything in the file header with MKVtoolnixGUI
- set the language of every track audio or subtitle
- set subtitle track(s) to forced
- name them (although Plex doesn’t show these names [yet])
- change the order in which the tracks appear in the players (this requires a ‘remux’ instead of just a header editing)
@OttoKerner That was the first suggestion in this thread. The issue is that Plex only recognizes the language (not the name) and uses very generic names. In the file I just made for example, both audio tracks are English, but one of them is the Rifftrack (basically a commentary track with people making fun of the movie instead of commentary). MKV allows you to specify a name for each audio track. VLC has no problem displaying them properly, I don’t understand why Plex can’t do the same.
Is there a feature request thread for this yet? If so, link me please. If not, let’s make one. This seems like it should be pretty simple to implement.
@WraithTDK said:
@OttoKerner That was the first suggestion in this thread. The issue is that Plex only recognizes the language (not the name) and uses very generic names.
In the file I just made for example, both audio tracks are English, but one of them is the Rifftrack (basically a commentary track with people making fun of the movie instead of commentary).
The ‘language’ is not set in your file for the second audio track. It only has a ‘title’.
MKV allows you to specify a name for each audio track. VLC has no problem displaying them properly, I don’t understand why Plex can’t do the same.
Mainly because nobody has a clever idea to avoid displaying track names like
awesome releeze grup english audio - visit us on releezegrup.tv!!!!! - english retail mixed with hindi mic dub
MKV allows you to specify a name for each audio track. VLC has no problem displaying them properly, I don’t understand why Plex can’t do the same.
Mainly because nobody has a clever idea to avoid displaying track names like
awesome releeze grup english audio - visit us on releezegrup.tv!!!!! - english retail mixed with hindi mic dub
I can see how that would be annoying; but I’d rather deal with that problem than this one. I can think of a couple of solutions:
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Plex allows you to save lots of other metadata about a title - name, description, etc.; why not allow you to rename the audio track, as well? It wouldn’t have to embed the change into the file itself, just have something in Plex metadata file that says something along the lines of “audio track 2 = ”
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If that’s too difficult, just have a setting that allows people to switch between it displaying the language as it currently does, or reading the name from the metadata in the file. Technical people who love to tweak and know how to change these things can fix the “awesome releeze grup english audio” groups, and everyone else can just use the traditional method.
@WraithTDK said:
Is there a feature request thread for this yet? If so, link me please. If not, let’s make one. This seems like it should be pretty simple to implement.
Found it! Everyone vote for this!
