We "translate" ISO 639-1 languages, in both 2-letter or 3-letter forms, to their repective names.
ISO 639-2 specific languages are not supported, even less ISO 639-3.
In my opinion the are a big drawback if we add the complete list of languages: the size of the program would increase a lot. it is not worth it for 99.99% of users.
If there is an interest, it could be doable to add a "module" with more languages, some work, contact us if you are interested in sponsoring such feature,
as a quick hack, it is possible to manually edit the Language file (laugnages names begin with "Language_"), and with CLI mediainfo --language=file://en.csv FileName for using the customized language file.
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Thanks for your quick reply, and I shall try that quick hack with the language file later :-)
This enquiry all stems from my Plex Media Server with its handling of foreign language audio in movie files and the automatic selection of subtitles.
I am just being fussy I think, wanting the app on the TV to show the words 'Mayan' as the audio language, hence my request here, because I always check the video file with mediainfo before it goes in to Plex.
Now I think about it, I guess this is really a request from Plex rather than mediainfo, but it's an interesting one!
I could even edit the MP4 metadata and change it to the whole word 'Mayan' I guess, and this would then show up on the Plex TV app.
:-)
Regards,
Paul
Last edit: Paul Littlefield 2018-11-30
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I have set metadata 'myn' in an MP4 file using ffmpeg for the movie 'Apocalypto' which is in the Mayan foreign language.
https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/myn
However, mediainfo does not display 'Mayan Languages' in the output for the file.
We "translate" ISO 639-1 languages, in both 2-letter or 3-letter forms, to their repective names.
ISO 639-2 specific languages are not supported, even less ISO 639-3.
In my opinion the are a big drawback if we add the complete list of languages: the size of the program would increase a lot. it is not worth it for 99.99% of users.
If there is an interest, it could be doable to add a "module" with more languages, some work, contact us if you are interested in sponsoring such feature,
as a quick hack, it is possible to manually edit the Language file (laugnages names begin with "Language_"), and with CLI
mediainfo --language=file://en.csv FileNamefor using the customized language file.Thanks for your quick reply, and I shall try that quick hack with the language file later :-)
This enquiry all stems from my Plex Media Server with its handling of foreign language audio in movie files and the automatic selection of subtitles.
I am just being fussy I think, wanting the app on the TV to show the words 'Mayan' as the audio language, hence my request here, because I always check the video file with mediainfo before it goes in to Plex.
Now I think about it, I guess this is really a request from Plex rather than mediainfo, but it's an interesting one!
I could even edit the MP4 metadata and change it to the whole word 'Mayan' I guess, and this would then show up on the Plex TV app.
:-)
Regards,
Paul
Last edit: Paul Littlefield 2018-11-30