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Summary

HandBrake writes the video track language as und, even when the source track is eng. The track check that Convert.RestoreLanguageTags() runs before restoring the IETF tags compared each track's ISO 639-2B language exactly. So every HandBrake deinterlace, and the HandBrake fallback of the re-encode repair, failed with Rewritten tracks do not match the original tracks for any file whose video track carries a language. The original stayed, and the file ended in Errors.

A rewritten video track whose language is undefined now passes the check, since the restore that follows sets it. A dropped track, a type change, a different defined language, or an undefined audio or subtitle language still fails the rewrite. The exception is limited to video because swapped audio tracks written as und would otherwise take each other's languages.

Evidence

• A synthetic interlaced H.264 file with eng video and audio, run through the image's HandBrake 1.11.2 with PlexCleaner's deinterlace arguments, comes out with video und and audio eng.
• The full-corpus regression run of develop failed every HandBrake rewrite of a file with a tagged video language, and passed every one whose video was already und.
• Copies of the affected corpus files, processed by this branch's build inside ptr727/plexcleaner:latest with the regression settings:
  • Every deinterlace succeeds, and each output keeps its track count with the video language restored.
  • A file with a subtitle track keeps it through the HandBrake subtitle merge, with its language and IETF tag.
  • A copy retagged to en-GB audio and en-US subtitle keeps both region tags through the HandBrake run and the subtitle merge.
  • A file whose audio has no decoder, such as encrypted audio, ends RepairFailed with its original and audio intact. Before 3.23 the HandBrake repair fallback dropped that track and reported the file as repaired.

Tests

• RestoreLanguageTags_EditsOnlyWhenTracksMatch gains an undefinedvideo case that passes and asserts the video track's language is set, and an undefinedaudio case that fails.
• DeInterlace_HandBrakeOutput_RestoresUndefinedVideoRefusesDroppedAudio drives the HandBrake deinterlace with an output whose video is und, which restores the language, and one that drops an audio track, which fails with the original byte-identical.
• VerifyAndRepair_UndecodableAudio_HandBrakeDropsTrack_KeepsOriginal fails every FFmpeg verify and re-encode with "no decoder found", lets the HandBrake output without the audio verify clean, and asserts the track check alone keeps the original.
• Mutation checks: develop's Convert.cs fails both video und cases, and ignoring a failed track check in ConvertUsingHandBrake fails the repair and dropped-audio tests.
• FakeTools.WriteChangedIdentify and an optional leading identify case on WriteSampleToolData replace three copies of the same fixture code in this file.
• Full suite: 498 passed.

Dropped findings

• PlexCleanerTests/ReEncodeBitrateStateTests.cs AddSubtitleTrack, consolidation onto FakeTools.WriteChangedIdentify, on a file this change does not touch.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Video conversions no longer fail when HandBrake marks the video language as undefined. PlexCleaner restores the original language tag during deinterlacing or re-encoding, while continuing to reject other track mismatches and preserve the original file.
  • Language-tag restoration through the FFmpeg remux fallback is supported for Matroska input; other input formats do not receive this fallback behavior.

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Walkthrough

The track-matching check now accepts an undefined language on a rewritten video track. Tests cover video language restoration, rejection of an undefined-language audio track, and rewritten outputs that drop tracks. Documentation records the behavior.

Changes: Language tag restoration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track matching and restoration PlexCleaner/Convert.cs, PlexCleanerTests/ReplaceOriginalTests.cs, ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md	HasSameTracks accepts a rewritten video track with language und. Other track checks remain. Tests verify the restored video language and the rejection of an undefined-language audio track.
Rewrite output validation PlexCleanerTests/FakeTools.cs, PlexCleanerTests/ReplaceOriginalTests.cs	Test helpers create modified identify data. Tests cover de-interlacing and verification/repair when rewritten output drops audio, and update the remux test data.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• ptr727/PlexCleaner#1156: Introduces the track-match checks in RestoreLanguageTags() that this change modifies.
• ptr727/PlexCleaner#1110: Moves language restoration into conversion and de-interlace flows that use the modified validation.
• ptr727/PlexCleaner#1140: Uses language restoration in ConvertToMkv(), which shares the modified validation.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 58fe6

The change permits restoration of undefined video language tags while retaining track-count and audio-language checks. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains established; merge after normal checks.

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Restore tagged video languages after HandBrake rewrites

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 📝 Documentation 🕐 10-20 Minutes

AI Description

• Accept undefined rewritten video languages so HandBrake deinterlace and re-encode can restore
 their tags.
• Continue rejecting dropped, reordered, or mismatched tracks and undefined rewritten audio
 languages.
• Add regression coverage and document the video-only exception.

Diagram

graph TD
  A["Original tracks"] --> B["HandBrake rewrite"] --> C["Rewritten tracks"] --> D{"Tracks match?"}
  D -->|"Match or undefined video"| E["Restore tags"] --> F["Rewritten output"]
  D -->|"Other mismatch"| G["Reject rewrite"]

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Normalize language only in the HandBrake path

• ➕ Keeps the shared track check strict for FFmpeg rewrites.
• ➖ Adds HandBrake-specific preparation before the existing restoration check.

Recommendation: Keep the video-only exception in the shared check: it is small, preserves strict matching for audio and subtitles, and lets the existing restoration step set the language. Reviewers should note that it also accepts undefined video languages from other callers of that check.

Files changed (4) +26 / -2

Bug fix (1) +5 / -1

Convert.csAllow undefined rewritten video languages during track matching +5/-1

Allow undefined rewritten video languages during track matching

• Changes the pre-restoration track check to accept an undefined language only on a rewritten video track. Number, type, and defined-language matching remain in place.

PlexCleaner/Convert.cs

Tests (1) +19 / -0

ReplaceOriginalTests.csTest video-only acceptance and language restoration +19/-0

Test video-only acceptance and language restoration

• Adds a passing case for an undefined rewritten video language and verifies the restoration command sets its language. An undefined rewritten audio language remains a failing case.

PlexCleanerTests/ReplaceOriginalTests.cs

Documentation (2) +2 / -1

ARCHITECTURE.mdDocument the undefined-video matching exception +1/-1

Document the undefined-video matching exception

• Explains why an undefined rewritten video language passes track validation before language tags are restored.

ARCHITECTURE.md

HISTORY.mdRecord the HandBrake language restoration fix +1/-0

Record the HandBrake language restoration fix

• Adds a release-note entry for restoring video languages that HandBrake writes as 'und'.

HISTORY.md

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Two unresolved nit-level findings remain: an added comment in Convert.cs that repeats existing rationale and should be removed, and a test case in ReplaceOriginalTests.cs whose name does not indicate it covers a video track.

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What changed in this PR

This PR fixes HandBrake rewrites failing on files whose video track has a language. HandBrake writes the video track's language as und, so the track check that runs before Convert.RestoreLanguageTags() rejected every such rewrite. The check now accepts an undefined rewritten video language, because the restore that follows sets it. Audio and subtitle languages are still compared exactly, so swapped audio tracks cannot take each other's languages.

Changes:

• HasSameTracks accepts an undefined video language in the rewritten output. Other track checks are unchanged.
• The test RestoreLanguageTags_EditsOnlyWhenTracksMatch gains an undefined video case that passes and an undefined audio case that fails.
• The HISTORY and ARCHITECTURE entries describe the new video-only exception.

File	Description
PlexCleanerTests/​ReplaceOriginalTests.cs	Adds the undefined video and undefined audio cases to the language restore test.
PlexCleaner/​Convert.cs	Lets an undefined rewritten video language pass the track check.
HISTORY.md	Adds a release note for the HandBrake video language fix.
ARCHITECTURE.md	Documents that an undefined video track passes the rewrite check and the restore sets it.

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Follow-up Comments

Add per-track edit coverage for two undefined video tracks.

406-406: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add per-track edit coverage for two undefined video tracks.

The undefined case changes only the first video track. The new path also accepts two video tracks that are both rewritten to und. The test does not assert the edit arguments for the second track.

Add a case with two video tracks that have different original languages and whose rewritten languages are both und. Assert an --edit track:@N --set language=... argument for each video track number. The assertions fail if either video receives the wrong track number or language.

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Review comment at @PlexCleanerTests/ReplaceOriginalTests.cs at line 406:
Extend the test containing the `InlineData("undefined", true)` case with a
scenario using two video tracks with different original languages, both
rewritten to `und`. Assert that the generated arguments contain the correct
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numbers and language values.

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@coderabbitai Declining the nitpick "Add per-track edit coverage for two undefined video tracks" (ReplaceOriginalTests.cs:406 on f99d8fb). No rewrite can see two video tracks written as und: RemuxRemoveExtraVideoTracks (PlexCleaner/Process.cs:174) leaves one video track before closed caption removal (:246), deinterlace (:256), re-encode (:311), and verify repair (:321). HandBrake writes one video track, so a two-video input fails the track count check before any language comparison, and FFmpeg keeps track languages. The per-track --edit track:@N --set language= arguments come from MkvPropEditTool.SetTrackLanguage, which this change does not touch.

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@ptr727 Agreed. I withdraw the request for two-undefined-video-track coverage.

I checked the pipeline in PlexCleaner/Process.cs. It removes extra video tracks and checks track counts before the rewrite stages you listed. Convert.HasSameTracks() also rejects a track-count mismatch before comparing languages.

The suggested test does not represent a supported rewrite path. This PR does not need that additional test.

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