Could we get a change on the display of Chinese audio track?

[WayneNotBruce 2]

I have lots of video with audio tracks of Mandarin (國語), Cantonese(粵語), and some Taiwanese Mandarin (台語).  These 3 audios can all exist in just one video at the same time.  I know it's not just me, many Chinese people have them too.

However Emby can only display and label all of them as "Chinese Simiplified" in the audio section.  I'd like to point out that this is inherently wrong.  First, "Chinese Simplified" (i.e. 簡體中文), is one of the most common written languages.  They dont speak "Chinese Simiplified".  Rather, what they most commonly speak in dialogue is called Mandarin (or Putonghua). The "Chinese Simplified" description itself should therefore be replaced.

As to the above 3 variants of Chinese audio, it's proposed that Emby should take reference from, and be able to display audio tracks using BCP47 language tags (mkvtoolnix has been using them too):-

Mandarin (aka Putonghua / 國語 / 国语)

- canonical form: Chinese (cmn-CN)

- extended language subtag form: Chinese (zh-cmn-CN)

 

Cantonese (aka: yue/粵語/粤语)

- canonical form: Chinese (yue-HK)

- extended language subtag form: Chinese (zh-yue-HK)

 

Taiwanese Mandarin (aka: Min Nan Chinese/台語/閩南話)

- canonical form: Chinese (nan-TW)

- extended language subtag form: Chinese (zh-nan-tw)

 

Alternatively, if the above change is impossible or too complicated, emby should be programmed to be able to regonize corrrectly the above audio variants based on the keywords we labelled them manually in the video container (whether in the form of English, Traditional Chinese or Simiplified Chinese, eg, Mandarin/國語/国语, Taiwanese/台語/台语, Cantonese/粵語/粤语), just as what it does to the embedded subtitles.

Thank you.

Edited February 23, 2023 by WayneNotBruce

[Luke 42081]

Hi, this will be in Emby Server 4.8. Thanks.

[yzxvw 15]

hi is this function updated in 4.8 beta? @Luke

[Luke 42081]

5 minutes ago, yzxvw said:

hi is this function updated in 4.8 beta? @Luke

Yes.

[yzxvw 15]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Yes.

am i missing something in this audio setting?

even i set all options to Cantonese it still shows simplified Chinese. Actually i want other simplified Chinese tracks showing mandarin not Chinese too. 

Audio #3
ID                                       : 4
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital
Codec ID                                 : A_AC3
Duration                                 : 1 h 35 min
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 256 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel layout                           : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : 125 ms
Stream size                              : 174 MiB (0%)
Title                                    : 台語
Language                                 : Mandarin (TW)
Service kind                             : Complete Main
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No

Audio #4
ID                                       : 5
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital
Codec ID                                 : A_AC3
Duration                                 : 1 h 35 min
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 256 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel layout                           : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : 125 ms
Stream size                              : 174 MiB (0%)
Title                                    : yue/粵語/粤语
Language                                 : Cantonese (HK)
Service kind                             : Complete Main
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No

Edited December 14, 2023 by yzxvw

[Luke 42081]

Try refreshing the metadata on existing files.

[yzxvw 15]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

Try refreshing the metadata on existing files.

this movie is just added to the library, i updated the emby server to 4.8 beta months ago

and i just did a refresh on this file, same result as i posted

Edited December 14, 2023 by yzxvw

[Luke 42081]

What version number are you on?

[yzxvw 15]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

What version number are you on?

4.8.0.55

[Luke 42081]

That should be new enough but I would update to the latest and try again.

Also what are the language codes embedded into the file? That's the important thing.

[yzxvw 15]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

That should be new enough but I would update to the latest and try again.

Also what are the language codes embedded into the file? That's the important thing.

updated to the lastest beta, no change

here is the codes in the mkv for Cantonese track

 

Taiwan Mandarin 

[Luke 42081]

I need the actual language code that is tagged in the file, not whatever that software is displaying.

For Mandarin it needs to be nan-TW

[yzxvw 15]

2 minutes ago, Luke said:

I need the actual language code that is tagged in the file, not whatever that software is displaying.

For Mandarin it needs to be nan-TW

the Cantonese code in the file is yue-HK

actually what the op said is wrong about Taiwan mandarin , Taiwan mandarin is not the same as min nan Chinese (aka: 台語/閩南話) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Min

mine is correct for Taiwan mandarin which is cmn-TW

 

[Luke 42081]

yue-HK is accepted for Cantonese.

[yzxvw 15]

3 minutes ago, Luke said:

yue-HK is accepted for Cantonese.

not working here though.  Actually im not sure if emby can read region part of language code, like HK part in 'yue-HK', since all my sup tracks didnt show it correctly without title. same applies here for audio tracks. it only works for srt subs

[Luke 42081]

I'm guessing it's not tagged exactly as yue-HK. It's probably tagged in some other way that the server hasn't added support for interpreting.