[vdr] Re: How to name the audio tracks?

[pasi.juppo@iki.fi]

On 28 Dec, Carsten Koch wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> ...
>>> 1) to honor this setup also for the default language selection.
>>>
>>>    In other words, If I switch to a channel that I have never modified
>>>    manually and this channel provides my primary language, use it.
>>>    If it does not provide my primary language, but it does provide
>>>    my secondary language, use my secondary language, etc.
>>>    Only if it provides none of my preferred languages, fall back to
>>>    the first existising language.
>> 
>> 
>> Don't worry, this is how it's going to be ;-)
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> 
>> The only question remaining is: should the "preferred language" selection
>> for EPG and audio be two separate settings, or should these be one
>> common thing?
> 
> I'd vote for one setting "preferred languages" rather than two settings
> "preferred EPG languages" and "preferred audio languages",
> but either way would be fine with me.
> 
> 
>> What about subtitles (which may also soon be part of the core VDR)?
>> If there are more than one subtitle stream for different languages,
>> should the selection follow the EPG/audio preference? Should we
>> then have three separate settings or just one common setting?
> 
> I guess the situation is complicated here.
> Obviously, if you are not hearing-impaired, it makes no sense
> to watch a movie with the same audio and subtitle language.

I disagree. I'd like to see subtitles for English spoken movie if
Finnish subtitles are not available (eases up the "listening" :-).


> I see two situations where subtitles do make sense:
> 
> a) An audio language that I understand well is not available.
> b) I am watching the movie with international friends.
> 
> So, the *default* subtitle language should follow the same rules as
> above for the audio language, to cover situation a).
> For situation b), the only solution is to select the proper
> language manually.

Why not have separate configuration to cover this automatically too.

-- 
Br, Pasi