Hi, I have a situation where I have a tv show in two different languages. One is original the other is dubbed. The dubbed episodes are cut differently than the original, so muxing the audio tracks together and use the original video track in an mkv file is impossible.

Is there a way to switch not only between the audio tracks in jellyfin but to also switch the video track with the audio? Like, I create an mkv file with both video and audio tracks. When I then switch the audio language in jellyfin it should also load the corresponding video track from the mkv file.

For example, VLC player can switch between the different video tracks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

this only works with movies. As far as I tried it does not work with tv show episodes. I gave both video files the same name with different language tags:

TV Show S01E01 [English].mp4
TV Show S01E01 [German].mp4

All it does is show the Episode twice in the episode list. One with the correct name and description and one with just the file name and no description.

Plus you can't just watch a season of a tv show because the episodes would be played one by one. One time for each language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If it just language add the audio track to one of the mkvs. Ignore me I see your episodes are different cuts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Then you need to merge them.

Navigate to one of the episodes, then in the list of other episodes long click the other version. It will become selected, then from the top right select "merge versions".

I have several shows that have episodes with more than one version.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Ok, I didn't know that's a feature. It should work right out of the box like with movies tbh.

But it works, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could it be that automerge is not working because you are missing a hyphen? The movie section in the Jellyfin docs states:

To distinguish between versions, each filename needs to have a space, hyphen, space, and then a label.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I add the Hyphen like this:

TV Show S01E01 - [English].mp4
TV Show S01E01 - [German].mp4

nothing changes. The episode is listed twice and I have to manually merge them together.

Btw. I'm currently on the newest version 10.9.11.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

did you do a rescan for the library?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes I did several times