Default audio track not being played? (1 Viewer)

[Dr Forinor]

@Sebastiii Here we go

 

[Sebastiii]

Could you try again, there is a bug in Watchdog for 1.12 (corrected on 1.13) that doesn't enable debug level, so can you change your level and retry watchdog
Thanks

 

[Dr Forinor]

@Sebastiii At the moment it's on Standard, you want me to switch to Expert?

 

[Sebastiii]

Not necessary but debug switch is needed to have full logs information

 

[Dr Forinor]

Setting has been changed. Hopefully this should show?

 

[Sebastiii]

Yep perfect Debug line are there.

[2016-01-17 14:08:35,476] [Log    ] [MPMain   ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Audio; Name=A: No lang AC3 5.1 chnls 640 kbps (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 640 kb/s) [default], Filter=LAV Splitter Source, Id=1, PDWGroup=1, LCID=0
[2016-01-17 14:08:35,476] [Log    ] [MPMain   ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Audio; Name=A: English - commentary AC3 2.0 chnls 192 kbps [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s), Filter=LAV Splitter Source, Id=2, PDWGroup=1, LCID=1033

As you can see, your first track is not tagged as language event if the default, i have looked the code and MP stop to search (match) a language when it found the first one, so it means that if you set a language on this track, MP will find and select it (even if we have a second track as english).

So the best way will be to tag your track for now.

Maybe in a newer MP version : (need to think obout it lol)

A feature can be surely developed to select a default track (but it dependent of splitter i.e LAV splitter parse the info so it can surely works with it) that override the language selected in config.
So for example we have 3 audio tracks and the second one is the default (what ever the language set or not, for example it can be no language set or chinese or what ever), MP will select it (the second/default audio track) even if the first audio track is english (English is the setting in your config)

 

[Dr Forinor]

Thank you for that.

So in the scenario where I have foreign films, with the default track being the audio in the foreign language and it is what I want played, what should I do then? Or do I have no choice?

 

[Ministerk]

I'm just a little bit curious, what happens if you pick not English as preferred language. Set it to Afrikaans or Papiamento, does it fallback to the default audio track?

 

[Dr Forinor]

@Ministerk Interesting thought, let me try and get back to you

I was thinking if you can have an option of "No Preference" in the language list? That way, you can let the video decide?

 

[Sebastiii]

I'm just a little bit curious, what happens if you pick not English as preferred language. Set it to Afrikaans or Papiamento, does it fallback to the default audio track?

If it was like subtitle, MP will take the first available audio track (whatever default or not)

Thank you for that.

So in the scenario where I have foreign films, with the default track being the audio in the foreign language and it is what I want played, what should I do then? Or do I have no choice?

For the feature to develop, if we have an option to always take the detected default track, it will take the default one whatever the selected language set in MP configuration.