[Moukrea]

Coming back here as I have several questions...

I generate STRM files that I integrated in my library. When I direct play, I can switch audio files, subtitles... But if I transcode, if just uses the defaults track with no possibility to switch tracks (the only one available being "null"). That's a known issue that comes from the way Google handles the transcoding.

So I had this idea... Wouldn't it be possible to extract the non-default tracks from the MKV and get the addon to somehow use it alongside the transcoded stream?

1. I know it's possible with subtitles, but apparently external audio tracks are not supported by Kodi (it's even tricky to use them on VLC by the way), but maybe there's something that can be done here?

2. Another idea, what about having the movie with default audio track, and a secondary version with the other track?

Here's an exemple to illustrate:

I have the movie Black Swan, with two audio tracks (English/French) and two subtitle tracks (French Forced/French Full)... The idea would be to make two versions like this:
Black.Swan.2010.bluray.1080p.dts.eng.mkv (English audio and Full French subtitles)
Black.Swan.2010.vf.bluray.1080p.dts.fre.mkv (French audio and Forced French subtitles)

File name is just to make an exemple... Maybe those would have to be in a separate folder to make the add-on understand what is what just like this:
- Movies
-- Black Swan (2010)
--- Multi-version
---- Version originale
----- Black.Swan.2010.bluray.1080p.dts.eng.mkv
---- Version française
----- Black.Swan.2010.vf.bluray.1080p.dts.fre.mkv

The "Multi-version" would tell the addon that this movie has multiple versions and the subfolders within it give them a name (here "Version originale" and "Version française"), then the addon makes its magic, create STRM files I can scrape into library and...  Wait a minute, it just makes two entries in my library!

So here comes the extra idea... What if Google Drive addonc during STRM file creation was "watching" for movies with the "Multi-version" and when it encounters this folder, creating its very own kind of container (containing istelf the two STRM files) and adding that to the output directory instead of the two strm files within .../Multi-version/Version originale and .../Multi-version/Version française just like this:

- Movies
...
-- Bienvenue à Gattaca (1997)
--- Bienvenue.à.Gattaca.1997.bluray.1080p.dts.mkv
-- Black Swan (2010)
--- Black.Swan.2010.bluray.1080p.dts.gdaddon (something Kodi will recognise as able to be imported in the library though)
-- Captain Marvel (2019)
--- Captain.Marvel.2019.bluray.4k.hdr.atmos.mkv
...

Once scrapped, if started, the addon would first prompt the user which version he'd like to use, then open the selfcontained strm file corresponding to its choice!

I think it's something "doable" but I have no idea how hard would it be to implement such things into the addon... I've never messed with Python (although that's something I'm seriously thinking about) nor anything else than web stuff so I'm kinda clueless, but I'd be glad to give an hand!