plex-audio-subtitle-switcher VS Exoplayer

Ever since I was recommended this script for batch setting audio/subtitles on a show, I've used it religiously every time I'm about to start a new show to enable some specific subtitles or change the language. It's a super handy tool, but I'm lazy. I didn't want to remote into my plex server, manually run the script, find the right show/season, AND select the proper audio/subtitle streams every time. Luckily, I'm not only a lazy person; I'm also a bad programmer.

This might be useful. I'm not sure this is the right/current tool. I know there's something prebuilt out there but haven't done it myself. Someone else will probably chime in.

If you’re okay with a command line utility, I use: https://github.com/gstacks13/plex_set_tracks

the only ways i’ve been able to find to deal with this are pastatool and this script

This may not be a perfect solution, but I personally use it per show for anime with .ass files and it does wonders. Allows setting which sub and audio track per season or for the whole show. https://github.com/gstacks13/plex_set_tracks

Try this: https://github.com/gstacks13/plex_set_tracks

https://support.plex.tv/articles/204985278-account-audio-subtitle-language-settings/https://github.com/gstacks13/plex_set_tracks

According to some people on the Internet [0][1], it is. Apparently, Java's (Android's?) Locale.getLanguage() is broken for Russian locale and instead of returning "ru" as the docs promise [2], it returns "русский".

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46916210/cannot-get-writ...

[1] https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/8251

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Locale.h...

I tried using the Fire TV but it has huge problems with some 4K HDR video formats that goes black screen. It is an issue reported by multiple users for Plex but it's the same for all applications on FireTV. This is the issue on github for Exoplayer: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/11096

Media3 is the new home for APIs that enable you to create rich audio and video experiences. If you’ve used libraries like ExoPlayer, MediaCompat, or Media2, you’ll find Media3 to be familiar. However, instead of using these separate libraries, Media3 provides a unified API for playback use-cases and also expands to cover new use-cases like video editing and transcoding. The APIs are simple to use yet powerful, customizable to meet your needs, and reliable and optimized so you can build for the diverse Android device ecosystem. (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/media3-is-ready-to-play.html)

Haven't done video work in years, but checkout the DefaultTrackSelector and start following around in the source code. Android Studio should allow you to do this all in the IDE. It's really the only way to learn/understand this stuff.

Also in regards to having to tell PC rtspt:// and Quest rtsp:// and waiting for ExoPlayer to fail over to TCP (8 seconds delay) https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/11069

I wonder if it's an ExoPlayer bug?

See the full changelog of ExoPlayer 2.18.2. Some notable changes are:

This started happening on Android when they enabled DRM on the streams. Assuming you use a device with Android 12 or later, you can just use Race Control TV to fix the issue. With Android 11 or earlier, Race Control TV also stutters due to this issue, which can be fixed by a custom build of the the app and force-enabling the fix mentioned in the issue.