[RFE] "Normalize" subtitle language codes to one entry

[Roodee 37]

Hi all,

I am not sure if anyone has noticed, but I've found that the 3-letter country codes / language codes do not really follow a standard (I may be wrong). It is most obvious in the section "Filters", where emby automagically only displays languages that it has ingested into the library by from the imported media. However, there are obvious dual entries for one languages:

deu - ger    for German
fra - fre      for French
ice - isl       for Icelandic
Possible other overlaps that I can think of (just that my library does not have any media to support it):
hun - mag   for Hungarian / Magiar
fin - suo      for Finnish / Suomi
chi - man    for Chinese / Mandarin

 

Since the developers cannot foresee ALL codes that may ever be used, there should be an interface in the Settings:

Codes	Language to map to
de, deu, ger	German [ger]
fr, fra, fre	French [fre]
ice, isl	Icelandic [isl]
[+ add new entry]

This may be made easier if there is a DB online that provides codes for languages (like IMDB does for titles tt* and names nm* etc.).

Thank you all for your support.

Roodee

 

[crusher11 897]

https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php

[Roodee 37]

Hi All,

the same mapping strategy could also be applied to ratings of "Motion Picture Association of America – Movie Ratings" and rating standards of other countries.

Basically, what I am trying to say: Once you think about mapping incoming Meta-Data like the language, you might want to have a look at building a more general code to map other Meta-Data as well.

That could be done on a local basis (per server/per installation), or there could be a general lookup table for this built in to emby. Of course the original data should be left intact, the "new" data should be written into a new db-field.

Age / Audience	MPPA	FSK	other countries	emby-internal
0 - General	G	FSK0	...	All
6		FSK6		6
7				7
8				8
9				9
10				10
11				11
12	PG	FSK12		12
13	PG13			13
14				14
15				15
16		FSK16		16
17				17
18	R, NC17, X18, XXX	FSK18		18
Unrated				18 and older
Not rated				18 and older

Should I put that into a different request?

Thanks all,
Roodee

Sources:
[US] https://www.parentalguide.org/movie-ratings/ 
[DE] https://www.fsk.de/?seitid=508&tid=72

Edited October 2, 2022 by Roodee
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[crusher11 897]

The languages conform to the ISO standard I linked. The age ratings already map to internal values.

[Luke 38535]

Hi, yes this may happen in future updates. Thanks.