Option to automatically choose the audio stream with most channels

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Montellese Offline
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You should make sure your files have a default audio track set, then you won't run into this problem. Furthermore I'm working on https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/700 which will try to open the audio stream with a specific language (if so configured).

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(2012-03-25 09:03)Montellese Wrote:  You should make sure your files have a default audio track set, then you won't run into this problem.

I don't believe MP4 has any support for this.

(2012-03-25 09:03)Montellese Wrote:  Furthermore I'm working on https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/700 which will try to open the audio stream with a specific language (if so configured).

Since everybody will have different preferences, we should really have a GUI option to pick the desired behavior:
1) No auto picking - always pick default/first track.
2) Pick audio language to match video language.
3) Pick most channels / "best" codec.
4) Match GUI language.
5) Who knows.

Another big problem for me is that AAC is considered a worse codec than AAC in the current implementation of XBMC.
This is completely incorrect for many files (AAC can easily be a high-quality encode from LPCM or similar source).
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