Burning dual audio videos

[ChaoZ]

I'm trying to burn a show that's dual audio. The problem is that they're not on different tracks but on the same one. So I have to move the sound balancer left or right to hear the correct language. So naturally when I play it on my dvd player, I can't choose the language I want. So is there a way for me to convert the video and only have the audio I want?

And no, the videos aren't copyrighted.

 

[0roo0roo]

oh its a lame ass asian video. some vcd's get by the limitation of not having enough space for dual audio tracks by recording two mono tracks into the stereo channel. meaning you choose left side or right side output only to hear the mono track. thats what you have to do to play it, most dvd players should have that option. that or go in demux the track, split the channels and reencode then damn thing.

 

[ChaoZ]

Unfortunately my dvd player can't do that, so I need to do something with the coding.

 

[tw1164]

your tv should be able to do change the balance.

 

[heymrdj]

Hey Chaoz. This stuff is my specialty, I've been doing it for years. You could mess with a program like AVI2DVD which can convert AVI's, and multi-track OGM and MKV's. It's a little confusing, but still a fairly straight forward program. Got a way to send me the file? Yousendit or something different? Get me the file and I'll work on it for you and see what I can do. You could use a program like Gspot to see information about the file, again I can do that too and see what it'll take to work with the file and get it converted. Let me know mate. My work is free btw, just in case your like the other guy that kept asking me how much 😛.

(When I do this I can make you either VOB DVD files, or a DVD ISO file for you to burn, let me know)

 

[TerryMathews]

Here's a general overview of what you're going to have to do to fix the file:

1) Rip the file to your computer (You said it was VCD, so that should be MPEG1).

2) Break apart the MPEG file and extract the video and audio portions.

3) Using an audio tool (Something better that Windows Recoder, you'll probably need Sony's Sound Forge), you'll need to seperate the left and right channels into seperate audio files. And yes, using the right tools, seperating stereo audio channels is easy. Just remember to not overwrite the original sound file.

(Optional) Duplicate the mono audio track so you end up with a dual-mono sound file (so it will come out of both speakers on your TV or the front 3 on a surround system)

4) Using a DVD/VCD creation tool, create your new VCD using the original video file you split apart and the correct language audio track.

If you don't have access to a good sound manipulation program or this is over your head, you're better off having someone do the work for you. YMMV.