GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 637871
Implement ability to choose an audio track in Video Player.
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:49:19 UTC
Sometimes Videos may have multiple audio tracks, for example Directors commentaries are often done this way so the Video is not needlessly written twice to a DVD. Banshee should give the User the ability to select which track to play.
Confirming.
DVD's (when Bug #549568 is fixed) will have this in their root menu, but riped DVD's (or other multi-track videos) won't. How should this be implimented from an interface perspective? Drop-down? Dialog window? Checkboxes (to enable selecting more than one)? Where in the Banshee window should the interface be?
To Matt(In reply to comment #2) > DVD's (when Bug #549568 is fixed) will have this in their root menu, but riped > DVD's (or other multi-track videos) won't. > > How should this be implimented from an interface perspective? Drop-down? Dialog > window? Checkboxes (to enable selecting more than one)? > > > Where in the Banshee window should the interface be? Close to the menu where you choose the subtitles, of course! More exactly under the "Play" menu, near the bottom. Also, it would be nice if you could set a default language for subtitles and audio.
Why shouldn't subtitles and audio tracks be one button which launches a settings dialog specific to subtitles and audio tracks?
(In reply to comment #4) > Why shouldn't subtitles and audio tracks be one button which launches a > settings dialog specific to subtitles and audio tracks? Or a pair of drop-down menus, perhaps? They'd fill with the audio and subtitle tracks available for the video. That would allow to change the language on the fly while playing a DVD, for example.
Drop-downs similar to the "next" button or the "repeat" button should do the trick, so long as banshee can find the subtitles and audio-tracks available. The only problem is if you want more than one audio track..
I've seen tickable menu items before such as in transmission's indicator menu (show Transmission) couldn't something similar be done to achieve tickboxes within a menu. Perhaps the subtitles/audiotrack menu could be summoned by a down arrow next to the volume control, like how the shuffle menu is connected to next.
My idea expressed in nice ASCII art: using drop-downs plus radio-buttons. [Audio v ] [Subtitles v ] |(·) English (en) | |(·) None | |( ) Español (es) | |( ) English - CC (en)| |( ) Comments (en)| |( ) Español (es) | |( ) Multiple... >| ----------------------- ------------------- In the Audio -> Multiple option, a window would pop up to select the audios the user wants to listen to: [ Choose... [x]] ------------------- |[X] English (en) | |[ ] Español (es) | |[X] Comments (en)| -------------------
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.