How to Name mp4 Language

General Discussion
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In OSMC in the lower LH corrner the language name is displayed. Most of my mp4 movies show und for unknown. I use gpac to set the language. Does anyone know the command to set the “Media Language Code” in Exiftool? exiftool -MediaLanguageCode=“eng” moviename.mp4 doesn’t work.

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Try: exiftool -MediaLang=eng moviename.mp4

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Thanks for it doesn’t work. Got the following:

Warning: Tag ‘MediaLang’ is not defined
Nothing to do.

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To set the media language with ‘ExifTool’, you can use the -MediaLanguageCode option followed by the desired language code. For example, to set the language to English for an video, you would use

exiftool "-MediaLanguageCode<en" Video.mp4

Note: make sure you use a version of exiftool that supports the MediaLanguageCode option. If this doesn’t work for you, try asking the author of the tool over at ExifTool Forum - Index.

There maybe other issues such as the warning - “Warning: No writable tags”

You can also do this with ‘MKVToolnix’ (at least for MP4/MKV video files).

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Thanks for your reply. I used using MKVToolnix to do what I want and I have ended up writing a small python app to convert mp4 files to mkv then adding a “track_name” for the audio and video track and adding the desired language.