No English on one disc

[arrbee99]

Not sure if my issue might possibly be related to this one -

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25906

but anyway...I ripped the bluray boxset of Father Brown and am having trouble with one episode. Its The Rod of Asclepius on Series 4 Disc 2. It seems then if I rip it to a bdmv folder and try to play that it plays with audio in English. However if I rip it to mkvs it doesn't have any audio at all. If I look at MakeMKV before its about to rip to mkvs it shows the episode is about 9.8GB but when saved to disc its about 7.4GB because of no audio. Aslo it shows that episode as only having Japanese, and its set to only save English, so it saves nothing, except the bdmv plays in English.

Any thoughts please, no matter how obvious to all you experts.

[Chetwood]

Posting Mediainfo's text output of the m2ts that has the English audio might help.

[arrbee99]

Thanks. Actually your post in the other topic (the 'I'm stumped..' one), has shown the problem. I ran the bdmv copy of the disc I have on a hdd through MakeMKV without restricting the language to English only, and you're correct that it now has three English audio tracks that are all labelled as Japanese. Go figure.

Would you happen to know if there's a way to label them correctly somehow ? MKVToolNix maybe (or something less intimidating...)

[arrbee99]

This Windows .bat file seems to work if anyone is interested. I don't know what I'm doing with this ffmpeg stuff so it might be the worst possible way to do it, but it seems to successfully change three tracks labeled as Japanese to three tracks labeled as English -

REM Testing for loop
FOR %%m in (*.mkv) do (
REM Change Japanese label to English for MKV
ffmpeg -i "%%m" -c copy -map 0 -metadata:s colon a:0 language=eng -metadata:s colon a:1 language=eng -metadata:s colon a:2 language=eng "%%~nm_english.mkv"
echo ====================================================
)

[arrbee99]

Whoa. Sorry, don't know where those huge A's came from, they're supposed to be just 'colon a colon'.

Edit - seems to be fixed if I replace the colon symbol with the work 'colon'

[Chetwood]

MKVToolnix's header editor allows you to change the track language without remuxing the file.

[arrbee99]

Thanks for the info. I think its fixed but I'll have a look in Mkvtoolnix. I do prefer graphical stuff to command lines...

[Woodstock]

mkvtoolnix will install a GUI front end to their tools, so you can go both ways. If I'm dealing with only one or two files, I use it; otherwise, I create a shell script.