Default audio language - Printable Version

Default audio language - Printable Version

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Default audio language - J_P - 2023-12-17

Hi all,

Total noob here and I'm sorry if this was asked before. I did try and search the forms but I couldn't find the answer.

When I play a movie it plays in a deferent language. I can't find the setting to change it to English, I would also like to know if there is a way to set a default for all movies/ episodes?

Thank you kindly for taking the time to read this!

RE: Default audio language - TheDreadPirate - 2023-12-17

If the audio track was tagged as default, I think that overrides any client default language settings you have. You can use tools like MKVToolNix or ffmpeg to change which track is the default track.

RE: Default audio language - J_P - 2023-12-17

I haven't set any default audio settings/Tags. I can't seem to find it. I'm using Synology NAS

RE: Default audio language - TheDreadPirate - 2023-12-17

On the clients you can set a default language (see attached image). But if the file, itself, has a default audio or subtitle track (not all files will) I believe that takes precedence over any client settings you set.

RE: Default audio language - Orogin - 2024-03-19

You can actually set any language as default.
But it needs to be set per profile.

1. Click on your profile in the top right corner
2. Click on Playback
3. On the very top you will find Audio settings. Set your preferred audio language and make sure to uncheck the checkbox saying "Play default audio track regardless of language"

RE: Default audio language - mildlyjelly - 2024-07-01

From my experience Jellyfin always plays the first audio track of an MKV regardless of the preferred language setting or the defaults within the container.

There is a playback setting called "Set audio track based on previous item (Try to set the audio track to the closest match to the last video.)". You could try that setting and see if it makes a difference for you, but in my experience, it doesn't work and Jellyfin still just plays the first audio track. Though, again from my experience, this ends up making things worse when using the web player because the player will show the correct audio track as selected (even though it is playing the wrong audio track) which means you can't select it without first switching to the wrong audio track so you can then actually switch to the correct audio track.

I'm sure there are ways to rearrange the audio tracks if you want keep them, but I just delete the audio tracks that aren't english.

I use the following command to remove the first audio track:

Code:
ffmpeg -i "[FILENAME].mkv" -map 0 -map -0:a:0 -c copy "[FILENAME].wk.mkv"

RE: Default audio language - Rubén Navarro López - 2024-08-18

Will be this fixed anytime? Because the checkbox "Play default audio track regardless of language" isn't working as expected, if you leave it uncheck, it takes the default language anyway