TV Shows defaulting to audio track with commentary

[cubitfx 1]

Some shows, like Supernatural and Brun Notice are starting with the audio track that includes director's commentary and I have to keep manually changing back to the primary audio track. Any helpful tips to figure out why this is happening?

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[Happy2Play 9782]

What does Emby show in Media Info section for the problem shows?

[cubitfx 1]

Good question. I'll check and report back next time it happens!

[cubitfx 1]

Fortunately, it happened last night.

It chose the "English AC3 Stereo" audio track instead of the "English DTS-HD MA 5.1 (Default)" audio track.

Under "Stats for Nerds":

Roku STB 3941x2
Emby 4.1.17

Stream

MKV (26.54 Mbs) -> HLS (8Mbs 87 fps) Reducing bitrate due to quality setting

Video

1080 H264 -> Transcode (H264 7.776 Mbs)

Audio

English DTS-HD MA 5.1 (Default) -> Direct Play

[Luke 42080]

@cubitfx

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

[cubitfx 1]

@Luke - Apologies for skipping steps. I missed that post somehow or I'd have followed it. I think the logs have rotated at this point, so I'll put a pin in this and the next time it happens, I'll grab logs right away. 

[visproduction 315]

Discussion on how to change the audio track order of the media file: https://superuser.com/questions/1440629/change-audio-track-order-in-mkv-files
You can also remux the file with AVIDemux and there is a way to switch audio tracks in the audio control menu.  You just flip the choices of which comes first and remux or encode if you want to convert.  Remuxing with encoding takes about 1 minute per 2 hour media. 

Edited May 2, 2024 by visproduction

[visproduction 315]

23 hours ago, visproduction said:

Remuxing with encoding takes about 1 minute per 2 hour media. 

Correction: Remuxing without encoding, takes about 1 minute per 2 hour media. 

Edited May 3, 2024 by visproduction

[rbjtech 5284]

2 hours ago, visproduction said:

Correction: Remuxing without encoding, takes about 1 minute per 2 hour media. 

Not really sure you can put a duration on a remux operation.   It's related to the size of the source file, media source (hdd/ssd) etc

I can assume you that remuxing a 100 MB MKV on an NVME is of magnitudes faster than trying to remux a 100 GB MKV on a slow HDD .. 

[visproduction 315]

It takes me under 2 minutes to remux 3GB on a notebook i7 Windows 10.  That seemed like a good average.  Who is archiving 100GB media?  Whew!

[Luke 42080]

On 5/1/2024 at 10:34 AM, cubitfx said:

@Luke - Apologies for skipping steps. I missed that post somehow or I'd have followed it. I think the logs have rotated at this point, so I'll put a pin in this and the next time it happens, I'll grab logs right away. 

@cubitfxyes that would be great, thanks.

[Lessaj 467]

1 hour ago, visproduction said:

It takes me under 2 minutes to remux 3GB on a notebook i7 Windows 10.  That seemed like a good average.  Who is archiving 100GB media?  Whew!

That sounds kind of slow, but it is a laptop I guess. I can usually remux a file of that size within a few seconds. Return of the King is ~125GB. It takes me about 6 minutes to remux it. It's going to depend a lot on your hardware.

[rbjtech 5284]

8 hours ago, Lessaj said:

That sounds kind of slow, but it is a laptop I guess. I can usually remux a file of that size within a few seconds. Return of the King is ~125GB. It takes me about 6 minutes to remux it. It's going to depend a lot on your hardware.

yep..  this is my point - an extreme example, but you are not going to remux this in 2 minutes ..

09/02/2024  15:00           672,673 clearlogo.png
05/11/2018  18:17        25,087,933 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10-trailer.mkv
27/08/2023  04:07        16,346,336 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10-320-10.bif
09/02/2024  15:00           524,129 landscape.jpg
22/04/2024  01:53   143,736,602,947 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10.mkv
09/02/2024  15:00         2,073,973 fanart.jpg
09/02/2024  15:00         1,186,879 poster.jpg
26/01/2024  11:30         1,545,511 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10-trailer.png
22/04/2024  03:58            17,746 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10.nfo
               9 File(s) 143,784,058,127 bytes

 

Edited May 4, 2024 by rbjtech

[Lessaj 467]

8 hours ago, rbjtech said:

yep..  this is my point - an extreme example, but you are not going to remux this in 2 minutes ..

09/02/2024  15:00           672,673 clearlogo.png
05/11/2018  18:17        25,087,933 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10-trailer.mkv
27/08/2023  04:07        16,346,336 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10-320-10.bif
09/02/2024  15:00           524,129 landscape.jpg
22/04/2024  01:53   143,736,602,947 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10.mkv
09/02/2024  15:00         2,073,973 fanart.jpg
09/02/2024  15:00         1,186,879 poster.jpg
26/01/2024  11:30         1,545,511 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10-trailer.png
22/04/2024  03:58            17,746 The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - Remux-2160p Extended DV HDR10.nfo
               9 File(s) 143,784,058,127 bytes

 

Maybe with a bunch of really fast SSDs.