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20th September 2020, 19:21 | #861 | Link | ||
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That's incorrect. You can also click on the text itself. Nearly the whole row reacts to a single click by opening the dialog.
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Please also note that you can change which parts of the dialog are selected by default in the preferences. If you prefer to use the keyboard, maybe switch the preferences over to having the free-form input selected by default. That way all you have to do is click on the panel, type "en" and press enter. If you don't double-click, the focus will be on the "language" drop-down initially if the preferences are set to "components", otherwise on the free-form input — meaning you can just start typing right after the dialog's been opened. Quote:
And just to preempt a potential followup question: no, I won't make this whole thing configurable via the preferences (so that you could opt back to the old drop-down box without all the other additional controls, without the dialog). That would mean TONS of more code to maintain, more combinations to test extensively, a lot more edge cases and an even more confusing UI for users in case of there being more than the ISO 639 language being set. The old drop-down isn't coming back. I'm definitely up to improving the support & UI! Your proposal isn't really an improvement, though, as it comes with a lot of drawbacks.
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Addon: I've tried hard to design a system that, while offering much more power, requires a minimum of additional clicks. I'm very much aware users don't like having to click more. From a design perspective I had to balance the following requirements:
Of course several of those requirements conflict with each other. Why am I writing this? To underline that I _have_ taken those concerns into consideration. I'm not just willfully making users' lives harder.
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That was simply a false assumption on my part. Well surprise surprise, I didn't have follow-up questions. I suppose my only complaint is that from a UI/UX perspective, it's not normal for a text label to be an actionable element (meaning clicking it does something). Minor bug though:
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Maybe I'll change the visuals somehow to signal interactivity (similar to URIs are underlined & displayed in a different color). Ooooh, right. That shouldn't happen. From mkvmerge's perspective you cannot change the language of chapters & tags; therefore the GUI shouldn't allow you to change the language for those entries. It didn't before v50, and the edit button in v50 is disabled correctly, but the click on the text is still accepted. I'll fix that. Thanks.
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With regard to adding chapters...
Is there any particular reason why the supported 'chapter file' types can't be dragged and dropped into the GUI's main window, instead of always having to visit the 'Output tab'?
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If you don't see that popup, you've opted not to see it again earlier (there's a checkbox in the popup for that). The reason chapter files aren't treated the same way other source files is that mkvmerge simply doesn't handle them the same way. I might change that someday, but it'd be quite a bit of work for, honestly, not even that much of a increase in convenience, never mind that it wouldn't actually enhance or extend existing features.
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A few days ago I used gMKVExtract GUI v2.5.2.0 to demux some chapters as an 'chapters.ogm.txt' file. And when I tried dropping them into MKVToolNix GUI I received this message: - ...And the chapters did not appear Edit: I think I know what's happened now. The 'chapters.ogm.txt' file has been loaded and it appears under the 'Output' (Chapters) tab. But they don't appear within this box as being loaded: -
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I know, somewhat confusing, due to design decisions in the early days, not trivial to change, might be changed one day, but don't hold your breath
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EDIT: It's rather incredible that you first released your application way back on the 30 April 2003 and continue to regularly issues updates...
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Where exactly do you mean?
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Out of interest... What's the purpose of assigning a language to a video track?
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From a semantic point of view it isn't that much of a problem as there's the code "zxx" = "No linguistic content; Not applicable" that can be used to signal that the video track does indeed not have any linguistic content.
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What about "und" (undetermined)? That seems to work just fine when assigned to a video track, and it doesn't show as anything in MediaInfo.
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Semantically speaking "und" means that there is linguistic content, you just don't know which language it actually is. How players treat "undetermined" is not up to Matroska/MKVToolNix, and I bet it isn't uniform across players either.
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I have some movies where the original is produced in Sweden and Hollywood had make a remake of this movie. There are a lot of scenes where signs in Sweden language -> newspaper articles or shop advertisement and others. |
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But surely such sources would not arrive to you muxed within the Matroska container. They would be identified in a different way! Do transport container and mp4 muxers offer a video language option?
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MPEG transport streams do not have a language field in general. Certain track/codec types do have a language coded somewhere in their codec-specific initialization data, e.g. teletext or the generic subtitle PMT descriptors. However, MPEG transport streams as used on Blu-rays are always accompanied by clip information files ("CLIPINF/*.clpi"). Those files do contain a language field for all tracks, no matter their type, but for video tracks it's often empty.
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Another possibility: Think of Star Wars, there the language tag could be used to indicate the language of the intro. |
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