Smart Subtitle Behaviour Audio-Language undefined Subtitle-English-Default

[ginjaninja 605]

Ive just gone through an entire series, having to turn off subtitles on every episode as the smart behaviour didn't meet my preference.

The issues seemed to be that the audio track had no language -  it is fair to say having no language on the audio track is unusual..

but i understand the meaning of smart is 

Smart - Subtitles matching the language preference will be loaded when the audio is in a foreign language. 

 

So should the smart behaviour for:

• audio - language undefined,
• subtitle - native language - default=yes

be subtitle off? - as the audio isnt strictly in a foreign language..it has no language.

Should the smart behaviour assume an undefined language on an audio track be the preferred language of the user? Would that break any other more common cases?

 

FWIW when i set the audio track to English, cleared my subtitle preference history, and rescanned, the smart behaviour did set the subtitle to off (my preference).

[Luke 42077]

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Should the smart behaviour assume an undefined language on an audio track be the preferred language of the user? Would that break any other more common cases?

HI, it could probably be argued either way, and neither would be right or wrong necessarily.

[ginjaninja 605]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, it could probably be argued either way, and neither would be right or wrong necessarily.

sure but if no other more common cases are broken, would assuming no language=my language be better.

after all my language is more likely than not my language on my system

[Luke 42077]

The common case would be user with poorly tagged files who suddenly isn't getting subtitles selected. It's probably better as an explicit option.