[Enhancement] Add support for multiples audio tracks

[SapeurPonpier]

I started watching a video ( https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fMfipiV_17o ) from MrBeast, which is a famous English-speaking channel. However, the audio was in Spanish. It seems like YouTube implemented the feature of separate audio tracks and that not only are we not able to pick which one we would like to hear (unlike on the youtube player) but that it defaulted to Spanish. Which is fine by me cause I speak a bit Spanish and it trains me but still ... it might become tedious when I come accross a video with Chinese dubs, I would most definetly not understand anything.

We probably need to add a feature to enable selection of audio track.

[TheFrenchGhosty]

Adding supports for multiples audio track is needed in the player, or if videojs doesn't support multiples audio track, directly in the invidious UI.

Or alternatively just make it use the "default" one.

[unixfox]

Notice: https://yewtu.be uses a custom backend, so the language selection is available.

This does not mean that invidious support it natively. it's just a yewtu.be thing

[d4g]

I would kindly ask to not see this as an enhancement but as a bug.
It's not an enhancement to play a video in the original language and it's not an enhancement to be able to select the original language if a different langauge is played back. This is a bug. As more and more issues regarding this are created, I would be interested if this is under investigation or postponed into oblivion?

[mas1701]

I would kindly ask to not see this as an enhancement but as a bug. It's not an enhancement to play a video in the original language and it's not an enhancement to be able to select the original language if a different langauge is played back. This is a bug. As more and more issues regarding this are created, I would be interested if this is under investigation or postponed into oblivion?

With more and more AI translations, the number of multilanguage videos will most likely increase rapidly. So IMO this is too significant to ignore. I just stumbled upon a german car review video playing in french. 👎

[RichyHBM]

Until a better solution comes up, maybe the immediate fix could be to always fetch a video in its original language?

[ggtylerr]

Until a better solution comes up, maybe the immediate fix could be to always fetch a video in its original language?

I'm not sure if it's already mentioned in the thread but companion already does this. Only reason why the issue is still open is cause the patches haven't been merged to master yet.

[pimlie]

Is there any workaround for this issue? Or should users already start using companion?

[RichyHBM]

I've been out of the loop somewhat, what is companion?
As for a work around, if you change your resolution in the setting from dash to something else it seems to fix it

[syeopite]

Support for videos with multiple audio tracks has been merged! Please let us know if you discover any issues with this feature

[ildoc]

Will it be possible to set the original audio track as the default one?

[syeopite]

The PR should've already set the original audio track as the default one

[ildoc]

for example watch?v=QRwMmw7a0VQ is set on english track while the original audio is in italian

I also tried to change the user language, but the default track is always in english

[matzzze]

for example watch?v=QRwMmw7a0VQ is set on english track while the original audio is in italian

I also tried to change the user language, but the default track is always in english

just updated my resident invidious (not companion but classic with inv_sig_helper & po_token ) and i can confirm it still plays in English

[ildoc]

I've opened an issue just to keep track of this