Ticket #267 (new defect)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 1 year ago

Perian Ignores MKV Default Track when Multiple Languages are Present

Reported by: monkeyvoodoo Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Perian-Main Version: 1.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

In MKV files with multiple audio tracks of different langauges, Perian (QuickTime?) seems to use the system language preference order to determine default tracks, rather than setting the enabled tracks according to defaults explicitly specified in the MKV file. This is very annoying, as there's no way to display a given language by default (if you don't want whatever your preferred language in OS X is to be the default).

Even enabling the first track encountered of a given type would be acceptible, rather than the horribly broken behavior Perian currently exhibits. As an English speaker who watches lots of non-English MKV videos, I have no way of watching in the media's native language in Front Row, other than re-muxing the file to exclude English tracks.

If example files, or anything else is needed, please let me know.

Change History

11/17/07 01:47:42 changed by astrange

Perian is the only demuxer I know of that actually respects the default track flag. This is a bug in Front Row; it enables tracks apparently at random.

11/17/07 13:43:43 changed by monkeyvoodoo

You're right - I'm seeing normal behavior in QuickTime Player. Sorry - I may have let frustration get the best of me in opening this ticket...