DVB-T Ireland ISO_639_language_code incorrectly assigned

Seapoint

Hi folks, in Ireland, the transmitting authority is RTENL or https://2rn.ie/
They belong to a group of transmission authorities who have standardised their broadcast transmissions in order to simplify receiver manufacturer production costs and legacy platform management.

"Within the NorDig group (the transmission authorities of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Ireland) we test receivers designed to operate within our respective jurisdictions and certify these as “Approved” devices; this approvals process ensures that the Irish consumer can purchase receive equipment in the confidence and knowledge that all future platform developments and enhancements will function correctly with the (Saorview) approved receiver"

This means that they either correctly or incorrectly tag the Irish language streams as follows:

labelled as: 'iri' instead of 'gle'

I've been beating my head against the wall for a number of years trying to get them to correct this but no, they're adamant that they're not changing.

Is it possible to add an additional language tag "iri" in order to set an audio stream filter - the majority of people in Ireland don't speak Irish and the stream is broadcast in mono and defaults to "iri" necessitating a manual change every time a channel is selected.

Thanks a million

DeltaMikeCharlie

@Seapoint - To reiterate your requirements, you would like Irish (iri) added to the following dropdown list. Correct?

A quick review of the code suggests that this could be trivial to add.

tvheadend/tvheadendblob/master/src/lang_codes.c

However, TVH can also call third party external functions (like FFMPEG) that may validate language codes and reject codes considered invalid. It may be a case of changing it and seeing if it works.

Do you have any programming skills?

On which platform do you run TVH?

Seapoint

@DeltaMikeCharlie Hi, thanks for coming back to me.
Yes, that's exaxtly what I was referring to.
I do have an Audio Stream Filter set to use ENG exclusively, it's not a show stopper.

I have TVH running in a docker container on ubuntu server, and my programming skills are very dubious :-)

DeltaMikeCharlie

Seapoint Yes, that's exaxtly what I was referring to.

Cool. That language is actually represented by 'iri'? Is it just English or something else?

chewitt

DeltaMikeCharlie That language is actually represented by 'iri'? Is it just English or something else?

No. Gaelic (gle) and Gaelic (iri) are the same 'Irish Gaelic' langauge. The former is the ISO code, the latter is the RTENL code. English langauge broadcasts often have a Gaelic alternate audio stream. 'Irish' broadcasts less-often have an English alternate audio stream.

DeltaMikeCharlie

chewitt No

Thanks. I had already worked out the stupidity of my question.