diff --git a/libs/portal/shared/data-access/src/lib/multi-source/vod-source-resolver-stream-info.spec.ts b/libs/portal/shared/data-access/src/lib/multi-source/vod-source-resolver-stream-info.spec.ts
index 5df8a0de9..d791b81b6 100644
--- a/libs/portal/shared/data-access/src/lib/multi-source/vod-source-resolver-stream-info.spec.ts
+++ b/libs/portal/shared/data-access/src/lib/multi-source/vod-source-resolver-stream-info.spec.ts
@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ import { readStreamInfo } from './vod-source-resolver.service';
  *
  * The declared shape is a string array and that is what the mock server and
  * many panels send; others send the ffprobe object. Reading only one of them
- * loses the provider's codec on every response of the other kind — and with
- * it the "dub may differ" warning, which compares stated audio tracks.
+ * loses the provider's codec on every response of the other kind.
+ *
+ * What the array shape carries is a CODEC and nothing else — no language — so
+ * it can never feed the "dub may differ" warning. That is the honest outcome
+ * rather than a gap: a codec cannot tell one dub from another.
  */
 describe('readStreamInfo', () => {
     it('reads the declared array shape', () => {
@@ -30,6 +33,28 @@ describe('readStreamInfo', () => {
         expect(readStreamInfo([' H.264 '])).toEqual({ codec_name: 'H.264' });
     });
 
+    it('finds no language in the declared array shape', () => {
+        // The shape the repo's own mock sends. It states a codec, so the dub
+        // warning stays silent on every source that arrives this way — which
+        // is most of them, and is correct: AAC says nothing about which dub
+        // this is.
+        const audio = readStreamInfo(['AAC']);
+
+        expect(audio?.language).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(audio?.tags?.language).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    it('reads the language out of ffprobe tags when a panel sends them', () => {
+        expect(
+            readStreamInfo({ codec_name: 'ac3', tags: { language: 'rus' } })
+                ?.tags?.language
+        ).toBe('rus');
+        // Some panels hoist it out of `tags`.
+        expect(
+            readStreamInfo({ codec_name: 'ac3', language: 'eng' })?.language
+        ).toBe('eng');
+    });
+
     it('says nothing when the provider said nothing', () => {
         // Empty beats wrong: an absent codec must not become a stated one.
         expect(readStreamInfo([])).toBeUndefined();