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Titles on Bluray with Japanese audio show up twice
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 6:45 am
by Wasabi
This particular example is the Friends TV show Bluray collection. I've seen it on other discs as well, but it didn't become a major annoyance until now. The first 12 titles listed have the original English audio and all of the other languages EXCEPT Japanese. The second 12 titles are the same as the first 12, except these have the original English audio and Japanese audio only.
1) Can this be fixed? I'm guessing not since the duplicates come from different playlist files.
2) Is it possible to make a default selection rule that disables any title with any Japanese audio? Using -sel:all still leaves the video track selected. I can't figure out a way to completely deselect a track.
Re: Titles on Bluray with Japanese audio show up twice
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:40 am
by ndjamena
The first few series of Supernatural came with separate Japanese titles, in the later series all the languages were merged into single titles. Which highlights the problem with trying to select 'Titles' automatically. A rule for the first few series won't work with the last few.
Re: Titles on Bluray with Japanese audio show up twice
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:12 pm
by Smithcraft
I think there was an identical issue with Batman Begins.
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Re: Titles on Bluray with Japanese audio show up twice
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:47 pm
by Wasabi
It's not that big a deal when it's just one movie, but this is 20 discs with as many as 12 episodes each. It really puts a crimp on doing it in batch mode when it's going to take twice as long and take up twice as much space.
Re: Titles on Bluray with Japanese audio show up twice
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:12 am
by ndjamena
I understand perfectly, I think Supernatural had about 4 episodes per disc, but there was no actual pattern to how they were ordered so I had to look at each individual episode and check over and over to make sure I got the right ones.
You have to consider how what you're asking affects the program as a whole, it's not actually a bug and if he implements this someone might get the idea of further 'improving' the title selection, and each time that happens it will make perfect sense to the Requester and everyone who's faced the same problem but eventually it will snowball. It's really not that hard to weed out the Japanese episodes manually, a pain in the ass, yes, but not hard.
By the way, humans decide what's on a disc, which means it doesn't HAVE to have any logical sense. I've had disc where they've included a seemingly random foreign language track on a single episode as a 'special feature'...