VLC should remember subtitle/audio/video track settings...

[jurgenbelien]

I often watch series with 2 audio tracks (many anime have both japanese and english dubs in their ogm files) with audio set to japanese and subtitles on (english). When I watch them i usually drag the folder with the episodes to the VLC playlist.

What really bugs me is that I have to select audio track 2 instead of 1 and subtitle track 1 instead of disabled for every new episode I watch.
I would be really happy if VLC would remember what I selected the previous movie in the playlilst and try to select the same in the next.

[The DJ]

You can select "preferred track language" in the preferences. Then you will no longer have this problem.

[adezero]

where is that? the preferences are vast

[adezero]

I'm also having a problem with viewing series. VLC says the movie is about 2 and a half hours when it's only 22 minutes or so. this isn't that much of a problem, but I think it relates to my big problem. I can't skip ahead through the movie. "jump 10 seconds forward" for example does not work. any solution for this?

[Guest]

^ ditto

[guest50]

Same problems here, and display size memory would be nice too. If not in full screen when one episode switches to the next i have to resize the new episode to the size i was at... and switch to audio 2 and subs track 1. It gets annoying.

[chadalanphotography]

This is where you can set language preferences.

Settings - Preferences

Choose Input/Codecs

You can place country codes in Audio Language textbox.

--OR--

This is the way I do it. When I'm watching anime. I watch an entire series at a time. And, thankfully, the encoders that I get my releases from use the same audio track all the way through. So if I know that I'm going to use audio track 2, this is how I set it.

Go to Input/Codecs using the method posted above.

Click Advanced Options.

Set Audio Track to 1

Set Audio Track ID to 2 (Or whichever track you're going to use)

Click Save and voila. Now when you add files to the list it'll start on Audio Track 2

Hope this helps!

~C~

[Ace_boy2099]

I too watch alot of anime on my comp using nothing but VLC and DivX(sometimes). I too noticed that depending on who released the fan sub\dub the audio and soft-subtitles could be:
A) Not marked
B)Inconsistant with other shows\episodes

I think that there should be some kind of standard or written or unwritten golden rule about labeling sub and dub tracks so that something like this is possible. Till then we just have to live with it or change the settings on the said-player (This case VLC) each time we change shows. If you stop in the middle and go to watch a video clip you would have to change the settings again to play the clip correctly then back again to continue watching the first show again. If anything is discovered to fix this feel free to let me know at your earliest convience!!

[bagwandin]

Hi
Thanks for the help on audio track selection - works great.

How is the subtitle selection done? I tried the same method for subtitles with no success - tried track 0 and 1 etc
Please help. Thanks

[mozz26]

To set the subtitles you set the subtitle track to "0" and the Subtitle track ID to "-1"

Hope this helps!

[Jakaruus]

This is where you can set language preferences.

Settings - Preferences

Choose Input/Codecs

You can place country codes in Audio Language textbox.

--OR--

This is the way I do it. When I'm watching anime. I watch an entire series at a time. And, thankfully, the encoders that I get my releases from use the same audio track all the way through. So if I know that I'm going to use audio track 2, this is how I set it.

Go to Input/Codecs using the method posted above.

Click Advanced Options.

Set Audio Track to 1

Set Audio Track ID to 2 (Or whichever track you're going to use)

Click Save and voila. Now when you add files to the list it'll start on Audio Track 2

Hope this helps!

~C~

To set the subtitles you set the subtitle track to "0" and the Subtitle track ID to "-1"

Hope this helps!

I did this, but whenever i set my audio to that, it just disables it, and the subtitle one also does nothing.
is this the "correct" way of doing it & is it just something wrong my my VLC or is this wrong.

Getting tired of switching over audio/sub tracks every episode. >.<

[000]

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/218
THIS.

I KNOW VLC ISNT MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC BUT INSTEAD OF BEING CALLED "TRACK 1" AND "TRACK 2" IT HAS A NAME

"PREFERRED AUDIO LANGUAGE" DOESNT WORK AT ALL. THATS NOT A MINOR ISSUE. WHEN YOUR FEATURES IN YOUR DOESNT WORK AND YOURE MAKING MORE FEATURES
I GOT DESPERATE AND STARTED TYPING IN THINGS THAT DIDNT MAKE SENSE

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/47/p ... guaged.png

Track 2, Track 1,us,usa,en,eng,uk,english,american,japan,jap,jp,jpn English[eng], eng, [eng], English, en, english

IT DOESNT WORK

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=VLC+AUDI ... xYPMM6r3XA

THIS IS REAL. TRY IT YOURSELF.

I REALLY WISH "PREFERRED AUDIO LANGUAGE" WORKED BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION. BUT IT DOESNT WORK. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO TYPE IN THAT TEXT BOX TO GET IT TO DO ANYTHING? I ALWAYS ALSO WONDERING IF THERE WAS A WAY TO NAME THE AUDIO TRACK LANGUAGES YOURSELF WITHOUT HAVING TO RESAVE THE WHOLE VIDEO AND AUDIO THUS SACRIFICING QUALITY WITH A RESAVE SO YOU CAN FORMAT TRACK 2 TO BE "ENG" THEN GET "PREFERRED AUDIO LANGUAGE" TO WORK THEN TYPE "ENG" IN ITS TEXTBOX AND IT WORKS (I WISH IT WAS THAT EASY)

OUT OF ALL THE GOOGLE RESULTS THIS THREAD WAS THE MOST USEFUL BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY SHOWED RESULTS WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS BUT THEN IT PLAYS THE OPENING AND THERES NO AUDIO BECAUSE THERES ONLY 1 TRACK THE JAPANESE TRACK 1 BECAUSE THE OPENING AND ENDING ISNT AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH. SO IT FALLS BACK ON DISABLED INSTEAD OF THE AVAILABLE TRACK LIKE EVERYONE WANTS IT TO

PLEASE FORGIVE ME IF IM RUDE BY NATURE BUT I THINK I SPEAK FOR ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO GOOGLE ANSWERS AND UP WITH QUESTIONS AND DEADENDS

THANK YOU SO MUCH, AND PLEASE REPLY. LOL

[john_f]

I dug through the source code and discovered the solution.

If you use the special code "any" (must be lowercase, no quotes) then VLC will accept any language after the ones you've listed.

I'm running version 1.0.1. The place to go is: Tools/Preferences/Audio

In the "Preferred audio language" box, enter a comma-separated list of language names. According to the source code, you can enter any of the following: (a) the name of the language in English, (b) the name of the language in the native language, (c) the ISO-639 two-letter code for the language, (d) the ISO-639 three-letter code.

So, German, for instance, can be entered as: German, Deutsch, de, or deu.

If you prefer English and understand French and German, your box might look like this: English,French,German,any

This tells VLC to first try English, then French, then German, then any language. If you simply list "English,French,German" you get the behavior already noted: if none of those exist, it falls back to "Disabled" rather than the default (Track 1).

[Shinka]

Hi Peeps and thanks for making me try this again (this time it worked!)

To watch all Anime with Japanese sound and English subs, do the following:

go to Tools / Preferences, and check "All" under "Show settings" in lower left corner of the preferences window.
then go to "Input / Codecs"

replace values with the following ones:

Audio track= -1
Subtitles track= 1
Audio language= JP,Japanese,Jap,392,any
Subtitle language= GB,US,En,English,826,uk
Audio track ID= -1
Subtitles track ID= -1

Works like a charm for any Anime so far.
Have fun!

[fantoma]

Hello,

Is there a way to add a button on the menu to switch audio track and subtitle on/off? Nothing standard about the audio track so it would be great to easily switch track with a toggle button. Can it be done? Thanks.

[jaimeamado]

Hi there!!
I've been searching for a solution to this small problem but i didn't find any answer:
When i have a .avi and multiple .srt files in the same folder, in order to select the language that i want to use to watch the movie, i select:

Video - Subtitles Track
Then Vlc displays:
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3...........
How can i change this display for example to:

English
Spanish
German..........
During my research i've seen answers like "Put a ".Eng" ending to the .srt file like this "movie.Eng.Srt" but Vlc doesn't recongnize the ".Eng" or show it on the Subtitles display..
I hope that the question is clear!!

And thank you very much if you can help me!!

[psycho69]

Forgive me for opening this old thread...

I want to know if it's possible to specify to VLC which subtitle track to use and which not to use?

For example, if I specify preferred subtitles language and type "English,French,German,any" without the quotes, is there an option to tell VLC which language not to use? I don't know, maybe English,French,German,any,-Serbian (which doesn't work BTW)?

That would be very useful for my IPTV watching, because when I switch channels, I almost always want to use subtitles, that's why I have the code "any" set, but there are some channels, which use Cyrillic character subtitles only, and I don't want VLC to display those.

Thanks for the answers.

[VLC_help]

You can select the ones you want to prefer but you cannot prevent certain ones.

[TheOne20001]

I have followed Shinka's settings exactly, but i still have a problem. Anime's that have 2 or more subtitle tracks work fine, however those with only one subtitle track come up disabled. is there some other setting that i don't have?

[dqsrobin]

For anime with one subtitle track the following setting worked:

Subtitles track= 1

Subtitles track ID= 3

The audiofix worked as described above.

[yangjiang01]

Hi, I just downloaded a movie file with 2 separate audio track files (one english and one ukraine), the movie is playing in russian but i want to switch the audio to english. However, every time I go to Audio --> Audio track, there is only 1 track available(which is russian), so i'm wondering if anybody knows how i could add the separate english audio track file in the movie?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Add it as input-slave.

[Scripkilla]

I have a DVD I am playing back using VLC and have tried all the above solutions with no luck. The only way I can play this DVD in English is to start playing it and then go to the audio menu and click one of two English track options (there are four total, 2 English and 2 Spanish). I go to media info and see that the audio stream number for English is 6 and then set that in the advanced options codec settings under audio track ID. Tried entering English in the audio language text box - nothing. It just always plays the DVD on 'Track 4 - [Espanol]'. Anyone have any suggestions? It plays in English on my mac and also all DVD players (hardware).

[VLC_help]

Does it help if you set the Audio language option to English? (eng, or en)

[retheldirood]

I am also having trouble with this. Using VLC 2.0.1.

What I am trying to do: Have a selection of video files (various filetypes... OGM, MKV, AVI) remember what audio track (when there are multiple tracks) I want them to use by default (set individually, per file), so that I don't have to fiddle with audio track settings over a large group of foreign videos between every file. Ideally, this would also include remembering settings per video file for subtitles, but I'll stick with plan A for the moment.

What I have tried to do: I tried the audio track=1/audio track ID=2 fix in the All Settings->Input/Codecs section of Preferences. This works precisely as long as I put in a file with at least two audio tracks. Not all of them do. If I put one in the playlist with only one audio track, audio is disabled. Since the goal here is to be able to put a bunch of stuff in a playlist and not have to change settings between files individually, this rather defeats the purpose, since I then need to get up and go over to the computer, rewind to the beginning of the file, manually activate the single audio track, and then press play again.

I tried putting in every possible variation of English into the Preferred Audio setting, separated by comma and no spaces as indicated in previous posts (the setting currently reads GB,US,Eng,ENG,eng,English,EN,en,En,any). This produces precisely no change whatsoever. I am not certain if this is a failure in my files or in the player, because I cannot get the desired result on any file in my collection. The possibility of it being with the file is due to the fact that none of the files in my collection list what track is what language, simply track 1, track 2, etc.

I tried combining the two. No noticeable changes from either individual setting.

How do I do this?