I ripped my DVD of National Lampoon’s Vacation which has two English audio tracks. 1) Main Feature Audio Mono 2) Commentary Stereo. Track two, the commentary, plays as the default. So, why is Plex selecting the second track? How to fix this?
Thanks,
R
What did you use to rip it? and what are the language settings setup like in the program?
This happens a lot on movies I record. You can’t force it to select the correct track in Plex so I use Handbrake to re-process it removing the Mono track.
I used MakeMKV to Rip. Also the mono track is the most important track it’s the real audio
The stereo track is the commentary. I want both. I don’t want the commentary to be default.
Get MKVToolNix
Open file in MKVToolNix
Make sure the Mono Track is set at Track 2 (Track 1 is Video, Track 3 should be commentary), then make sure the Default Track Flag is set to Default for the Mono track (And remove it from the Commentary track)
Click Start Multi-Plex
Delete the older file
Remove the (1) at the end of the new file
That should solve your problem
It looks like track two (the first audio track) is already set as the default.
Hmm, well, definitely uncheck the french, spanish, and portugese tracks (unless you want them) for both the audio and subtitles… And click start muxing… just to decrease your filesize…
And do a remux anyways… But, for this movie, you may just have to select the audio track you wish to play before you play it… I don’t know why plex is playing the stereo track (probably because it’s recognizing it as the better of its track choices and auto-selecting it)
I like muxing out stuff I have no use for as well - I’m funny that way.
(I actually look at what I’m ‘acquiring’ and just don’t get that stuff - I have to mux out later)
Ideally the first audio track would be the default, but since it’s Mono Plex might be in PITA mode - insisting it’s helping by selecting the Stereo Track.
I, like you, assume (careful) manually selecting that track would set it as the preferred track. Hopefully there isn’t a lot of Mono main tracks in the mix.
I’ve had this same problem with the Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray release of Some Like It Hot. The two audio tracks for the main and the commentary tracks were both Mono, but I added a commentary track from a previous Blu-ray release using MKVToolNix. The added track was Stereo and was set as the third audio track. Even though the first audio track was definitely marked as the Default, Plex insisted on using the third or Stereo commentary track the first time I tried to play the movie. It seems that Plex ignores the Default flag and tries to find a Stereo track. Very annoying.
OTOH, I was pleased to see that Plex (at least in the Apple TV) does display the names of the tracks that I add in MKVToolNix. So I can see that I’m selecting “Commentary by Howard Suber from 1989” or whatever.
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