I'm a big fan of services such as Rifftrax, and I hate having to manually mux files every time I purchase another release. Much in the same way that external subtitle file support was added, it would be nice to have external audio track support for TV and movies added as well. I wouldn't expect Emby to handle the offset calculations needed to sync the audio. It's not too difficult for me to modify that now.
I might be missing part of this but to me this seems like it would be far better as a plug in or 3rd party app that could check your media for movies without your native language then pull down a track from 3rd party web service and remux that audio track into your files.
This would allow automation is some format, needs only be done one time per file and would then allow the file to be played back in any system. By adding it as a new track and only remuxing it would be just as easy to remove the track if it were wrong as well.
Please note that such a request isn't always about listening to a dub of the movie in a different language. For me, I purchase releases from Rifftrax and currently mux them as commentary tracks. It would be far nicer to rename these files in a schema similar to subtitles and be done.
i personally dont need this for myself but i do know a lot of household members that would benefit from this. for example, if you are not native to the country you are in, you might not get a movie with that audio track. so what you could do, like with my family, is get the movie from where you are and have a friend or family member from the country you want the audio track from and play it along side your movie. this works great for my parents using kodi. the only problem is they have roku but its not hard to setup a server with emby or plex but neither support it. so the only way i seen is having a fire device with kodi. if emby or plex ever figure out how to do this they will take my money same day.
Recently found what Emby can't do that. Most of the time I watch foreign movies in my local language and there are usually (lucky to me) few different voice studios who voice over the movies. And some times only localized sound is available for a movie and it is hard to add original track to the file (that's how I found Emby doesn't support external audio). Most of the time it is much easier just to add a track to movie folder than injecting that track into mkv or any other video files. And I at least know how to do that - many other people don't.
Where can these external sound tracks be downloaded from for free like we can with subtitles? I took a quick look at which was mentioned but didn't see anything about this type of thing on there. I didn't look hard however.
Why can't these external sound tracks be remuxed back into the main movie outside of Emby so that they would be available to all video programs? This way you could also adjust offset that will likely need adjusting as well on many videos.
I need this for other reason. My TV doesn't support DTS, emby can transcode unsupported audio to ac3 but converting dts to eac3 (using ArcSoft DTS Decoder) is better choice.
I don't wanna change original file so I always keep 2 copies of movie first with dts and second with eac3 but this cost a lot of space.
@Luke How do I show support for this feature? This feature is high on my personal priority list. Is there a list of possible features somewhere that we users get to vote on? And the highest ones will be worked on (if possible)?
Typically something like this would need to get upvoted in a feature request by users to get included.
This isn't likely going to be requested by many people as the general way of doing things like this is to remux the file to include the audio directly in the media file.
Hi, yes all of the ones that you see here in our feature request forum. If you compare the activity it gets compared to other feature requests, that should give you an idea of where we will prioritize it.
For about a week now, I've had bad sound only on one channel - Hollywood Suite Movie channel for 70's movies. The sound cuts out every other second which makes it hard to watch the channel.. This happens ONLY on this one movie channel and on no other channel. It happens both on my ignite box in the living room and on the one in the bedroom. Anyone else? Is the issue with Rogers or Hollywood Suite?
I'm on IgniteTV and I can also confirm audio issues on live programming on HS70 (281). However, if you choose the same programme in the future (on demand), there are no audio issues. For example, Grey Gardens is on right now, but if I scan ahead in the guide and select play for the next "airing", there are no audio issues. I tried several other OD programmes and they were also OK OD.
Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying a picture is recorded on photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture. Sound-on-film processes can either record an analog sound track or digital sound track, and may record the signal either optically or magnetically. Earlier technologies were sound-on-disc, meaning the film's soundtrack would be on a separate phonograph record.[1]
Sound on film can be dated back to the early 1880s, when Charles E. Fritts filed a patent claiming the idea. In 1923 a patent was filed by E. E. Ries, for a variable density soundtrack recording, which was submitted to the SMPE (now SMPTE), which used the mercury vapor lamp as a modulating device to create a variable-density soundtrack. Later, Case Laboratories and Lee De Forest attempted to commercialize this process, when they developed an Aeolite glow lamp, which was deployed at Movietone Newsreel at the Roxy Theatre in 1927. In 1928, Fox Film purchased Case Laboratories and produced its first talking film In Old Arizona using the Aeolite system. The variable-density sound system was popular until the mid-1940s.[2]
Opposite with variable-density, in the early 1920s, variable-area sound recording was first experimented on by the General Electric Company, and later was applied by RCA which refined GE's technology. After the mid-1940s, variable-area system superseded the variable-density system, and became the major analog sound-on-film system until modern day.
The most prevalent current method of recording analogue sound on a film print is by stereo variable-area (SVA) recording, a technique first used in the mid-1970s as Dolby Stereo. A two-channel audio signal is recorded as a pair of lines running parallel with the film's direction of travel through the projector's screen. The lines change area (grow broader or narrower) depending on the magnitude of the signal. The projector shines light from a small lamp, called an exciter, through a perpendicular slit onto the film. The image on the small slice of exposed track modulates the intensity of the light, which is collected by a photosensitive element: a photocell, a photodiode or CCD.
In the early years of the 21st century distributors changed to using cyan dye optical soundtracks on color stocks instead of applicated tracks, which use environmentally unfriendly chemicals to retain a silver (black-and-white) soundtrack. Because traditional incandescent exciter lamps produce copious amounts of infra-red light, and cyan tracks do not absorb infra-red light, this change required theaters to replace the incandescent exciter lamp with a complementary colored red LED or laser. These LED or laser exciters are backwards-compatible with older tracks.
Earlier processes, used on 70 mm film prints and special presentations of 35 mm film prints, recorded sound magnetically on ferric oxide tracks bonded to the film print, outside the sprocket holes. 16 mm and Super 8 formats sometimes used a similar magnetic track on the camera film, bonded to one side of the film on which the sprocket holes had not been punched ("single perforated") for the purpose. Film of this form is no longer manufactured, but single-perforated film without the magnetic track (allowing an optical sound track) or, in the case of 16 mm, utilising the soundtrack area for a wider picture (Super 16 format) is readily available.
Three different digital soundtrack systems for 35 mm cinema release prints were introduced during the 1990s. They are: Dolby Digital, which is stored between the perforations on the sound side; SDDS, stored in two redundant strips along the outside edges (beyond the perforations); and DTS, in which sound data is stored on separate compact discs synchronized by a timecode track on the film just to the right of the analog soundtrack and left of the frame[3] (sound-on-disc). Because these soundtrack systems appear on different parts of the print, one movie can contain all of them, allowing broad distribution without regard for the sound system installed at individual theatres.
Just "upgraded" (questionable), from Movie Studio Platinum 17 to Movie Studio 2022 Platinum. In 17 I would add media, which was a recording that contained two audio tracks. It would automatically put the video and each audio track in its own row on the timeline. The most I would have to do is ungroups them. In 2022 it puts the video in one column and then I have select to view video and audio on separate tracks, which is no big deal, however it only put a video and one audio row. The two tracks are present, as I can switch between track one and two but I cannot separate them. I tried ungrouping, which it does ungroup the audio from the video, but it still only shows one row for audio and after ungrouping I cannot choose between track one and two. Need help because I record two audio sources for a reason. thanks
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