[Issue]: Australian Classification Ratings not correct

[starkebn]

Please describe your bug

I believe this file needs editing:

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/blob/fd250e4fe1c1a35e8e40c008a7d25675729e3dac/Emby.Server.Implementations/Localization/Ratings/au.csv

The Australian Classification has 6 ratings:

https://www.classification.gov.au/classification-ratings/what-do-ratings-mean

• G: no age restriction
• PG: PG-rated content is not recommended for viewing by people under the age of 15 without guidance from parents, teachers or guardians.
• M: M-rated films and computer games are not recommended for children under the age of 15. However, children under the age of 15 may legally access this material as the classification rating is an advisory category.
• MA 15+: legally restricted to people over the age of 15
• R 18+: legally restricted to people over the age of 18
• X 18+: legally restricted to people over the age of 18

in Jellyfin 1.0.9.0+ the list currently looks like the attached screenshot.

PG and M should be before MA 15+, probably at age 14. I'm not sure if the file needs all the other age ratings that do not appear in the Australian classification system, I don't think they appeared in 1.0.8.0 and below.

Reproduction Steps

Jellfin > Dashboard > Users > Parental Control > Maximum Allowed Parental Rating dropdown

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[Shadowghost]

Classifications were sourced from multiple sources: IMDB, Wikipedia and the one you linked.

From what I can see the only thing requiring changes is PG being 16 instead of 15

[starkebn]

at minimum it should be:

G; 0
PG: 14
M: 14
MA 15+: 15
R 18+: 18
X 18+: 18

I'm not sure anything else is necessary, but PG and M should be before MA 15+ at the very least

[Shadowghost]

Fine for me. But I think X18+ should be kept at 1000 (this level is used for X-rated content/pornography)

[danmolloy]

Hi there,
Just saw this conversation and thought I might add my two cents (I'm Australian).
M-rated films are advised for audiences 15+, whereas audiences legally must be 15+ for MA. PG (parental guidance) is fine for children, but they may need an adult to explain some themes.

You might find Community Cinema's page helpful.

[Shadowghost]

When implementing this I opted for being conservative and use the advised age as the limit - because there is no way for us to differentiate if a parent is watching it with their kid.

[Fenruz]

I found this GitHub Issue after upgrading to 10.9.x and finding most of my kids library was missing. I am also in Australia and the current ratings list (the same as the one in the screenshot above) is not reflective of our rating system. As it is now the function in Jellyfin is broken. If I set it to <14 it barely shows 10% of their library. Set to PG/16+ it shows inappropriate content. This worked perfectly pre-upgrade. Please fix if you can, I'm happy to post screenshots if they're allowed from the GUI demonstrating the issue.

[starkebn]

yes, something still needs to be fixed here

[Shadowghost]

Would reducing PG to 15 be enough? Im rather resistant to lower it even further because https://www.classification.gov.au/classification-ratings/what-are-ratings explicitly states that below 15 needs parental guidance and we don't know if that is the case.

[starkebn]

I'm not sure how it works, but it needs to be changed so that if you restrict an account to PG it can't see M or above, and if you restrict it to M the account can't see MA 15+ etc.

The list of restriction priorities is in the initial post

[Shadowghost]

But that is the main problem here:
PG: 15+ since we can't validate if a parent is watching?
M: 15+ but it's advisory
MA 15+ legally enforced 15+

So I guess we'd need to lower PG to 14 to not make it include M or MA content...

[Fenruz]

I'm happy to try it if you let me know how :-) I'd be very grateful! As it stands now it's basically broken and can't be used by the family :-( I set "14" but I guess because this doesn't match Australian ratings it shows nothing, while PG/16+ shows Peppa Pig alongside Joker :-( All the best.

[starkebn]

it's important that it's useful in the Parental Control section of Jellyfin, I don't care about anything else

the priority list is G < PG < M < MA 15+ < R 18+ and maybe X 18+

just like how it used to be and was useful

right now it's a mess and it sucks