Video files with multiples audio tracks about gnomecast

[fosskers]

I'd like to know how to do this too.

[keredson]

can you link me to the torrent for that file?

[fosskers]

Nice try, CIA ;)

Kidding aside, if you visit that well-known piratey torrent site and type in "Hero", you'll find a 1080p version with Spanish, Chinese, and English audio. It also appears to be a .mkv, so the experiment should be the same.

If someone were to want to watch that with the original Chinese audio, they'd be unable to switch since gnomecast has no UI options for selecting the audio track.

[shundake]

Dear @keredson this file is kinda old, as U can see in the encode date (i have this one for a year - i guess) but U can try with any multiple audio video file and I don't have the torrent file for. Only the first audio is played, as our friend @fosskers told in the previous comment.
Other thing is I can't disable the subtitles when it's hard encoded, but the main is to select the desired audio track. Idk if it's just a button to add or a feature to implement on pychromecast.
Ty for now.

[keredson]

I can't disable the subtitles when it's hard encoded

no one can as it's part of the video stream. i mean, i guess someone could train a neural network to detect and fill in missing video information. :)

[keredson]

i looked into this. there's nothing in the pychromecast lib documentation or source code that suggests any support for selecting which media track.

i also can't find this feature on any other casting software. nor any documentation on chromecast that suggests the default-media-receiver supports this. (which is not altogether surprising, there's very little documentation on it at all.)

the only thing i can think of is transcoding to remove all but the selected audio track. but of course this would be a multi-minute delay. think this is worth it?

[fosskers]

i also can't find this feature on any other casting software.

The latest versions of VLC manage to do it. One can right click on the UI and freely select the audio track.

[keredson]

VLC always transcodes to that weird format, so that makes sense.

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[keredson]

this is supported now.