Weird problem - VLC won't playback English audio from commandline
Posted: 13 Aug 2016 20:02
I have an odd problem trying to play back my Star Trek DVDs from VLC.
I have tried this in Linux (version 2.1.6 Rincewind) and Windows (version 2.2.4 Weatherwax), with the same result on each.
It won't play the English audio track as the default audio track, no matter what I try. This is the terminal command I tried, but it's exactly the same problem when trying to play from the "Open Disc..." dialog:
or in Linux:
When the media starts playing, an audio track is selected. The right-click popup menu shows me:
Here is the language that is selected when I specify the following values for audio-track:
Aside from really liking German, you'll notice that none of the audio tracks cause English to be selected when playback starts! I can select it from the GUI once playback has started and it plays fine, but this is obviously no good for ripping; the command needs to work from the commandline.
Does anyone know why it would never select the English audio track from the DVD? Is this a known bug or something?
I have tried this in Linux (version 2.1.6 Rincewind) and Windows (version 2.2.4 Weatherwax), with the same result on each.
It won't play the English audio track as the default audio track, no matter what I try. This is the terminal command I tried, but it's exactly the same problem when trying to play from the "Open Disc..." dialog:
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vlc -vv dvd:///E:/#1 :audio-track=0
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vlc -vv dvd:///dev/sr0#1 :audio-track=0
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Disable
Track 1 - [English]
Track 2 - [German]
Track 3 - [Spanish]
Track 4 - [French]
Track 5 - [Italian]
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:audio-track=-1 <-- German
:audio-track=0 <-- German
:audio-track=1 <-- German
:audio-track=2 <-- Spanish
:audio-track=3 <-- French
:audio-track=4 <-- Italian
:audio-track=5 <-- German
:audio-track=6 <-- German
:audio-track=7 <-- German
:audio-track=8 <-- German
:audio-track=9 <-- German
:audio-track=10 <-- German
Does anyone know why it would never select the English audio track from the DVD? Is this a known bug or something?