Feature request - changing audio track priority

[boe_d]

Hello,

I'm not sure if it is already a feature in the current version but sometimes the default audio is LPCM which my current oppo can't play. I could just record the DD track or I can convert the LPCM to flac but I'd prefer just to make the DD the default track and make the LPCM the second audio track.

Thanks

[ndjamena]

Track selection doesn't care what the codec is, just if it's lossless or not or stereo or not and you can't compare tracks to each other. Plus you're assuming all PCM tracks have a complimentary AC3 track which simply isn't the case.

If your Oppo cannot play PCM then you really don't have much choice than to re-encode the PCM to something else. If you edit the profile you can tell MakeMKV to transcode PCM to AC3 (or AAC) and leave a copy of the PCM track as well and list them in that order. I'm fairly certain a MakeMKV AC3 track can't be that much worse than the kind of encode you get from an bona fide Dolby encoder.

[boe_d]

I guess I wasn't clear - I'd like Make MKV to make it easy to change the order of the audio tracks or switch what is the default track when converting.

[ndjamena]

If you mean manually changing the track order or setting the default flags:

view | preferences | general | expert mode

Track -> Properties -> Order Weight (lower numbers move a track higher in the output file order, so in your case if you set the AC3 to 80 and the PCM to 90 the AC3 will come before the PCM)

Track -> Properties -> MKV Flags (d = default (there can be only one), f = forced)


You could also create a profile and add 20:true to the default selection rule of the PCM output, but doing anything like that automatically would be a pain, it's just as likely an extra AC3 track will be a commentary as a duplicate of a PCM track (DTS and TrueHD have cores to overcome that ambiguity).

[boe_d]

If you mean manually changing the track order or setting the default flags:

view | preferences | general | expert mode

Track -> Properties -> Order Weight (lower numbers move a track higher in the output file order, so in your case if you set the AC3 to 80 and the PCM to 90 the AC3 will come before the PCM)

Track -> Properties -> MKV Flags (d = default (there can be only one), f = forced)


You could also create a profile and add 20:true to the default selection rule of the PCM output, but doing anything like that automatically would be a pain, it's just as likely an extra AC3 track will be a commentary as a duplicate of a PCM track (DTS and TrueHD have cores to overcome that ambiguity).

Thanks! I'll give it a try this weekend.