From 21cdcf03a237a0c4979c941d5a5385cae44c7906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 18:02:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [ie] Resolve `language` to ISO639-2 for ISM formats (#11359)

Closes #11356
Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/common.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index 795105b7d8..ecece85f5f 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
     FormatSorter,
     GeoRestrictedError,
     GeoUtils,
+    ISO639Utils,
     LenientJSONDecoder,
     Popen,
     RegexNotFoundError,
@@ -3071,7 +3072,11 @@ def _parse_ism_formats_and_subtitles(self, ism_doc, ism_url, ism_id=None):
             url_pattern = stream.attrib['Url']
             stream_timescale = int_or_none(stream.get('TimeScale')) or timescale
             stream_name = stream.get('Name')
-            stream_language = stream.get('Language', 'und')
+            # IsmFD expects ISO 639 Set 2 language codes (3-character length)
+            # See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11356
+            stream_language = stream.get('Language') or 'und'
+            if len(stream_language) != 3:
+                stream_language = ISO639Utils.short2long(stream_language) or 'und'
             for track in stream.findall('QualityLevel'):
                 KNOWN_TAGS = {'255': 'AACL', '65534': 'EC-3'}
                 fourcc = track.get('FourCC') or KNOWN_TAGS.get(track.get('AudioTag'))