can I remove dubbing on an avi file?

[pattirose]

I have a avi file in it's original language (english) but they put a Russian audio on it also so I have both languages at the same time. Is there anyway to take the Russian off and leave the English? I doubt if this is possible but I thought I'd ask anyways, just in case.

[poisondeathray]

If they are separate tracks, you can remove one with avimux-gui

If they are separate channels, but 1 track, e.g L is English, R is Russian, you can delete one channel in an audio editor e.g. audacity, and duplicate it to the other channel make a "fake" stereo audio

[pattirose]

I think it's only one track because they both play at the same time. Any way to tell for sure? Or should I just try both programs?

[poisondeathray]

Yep go ahead, if there are multiple tracks, avimux-gui should list them. Mediainfo should also list multiple tracks

If there is only 1 video and 1 audio, then you probably have the 2nd example (L, R diff languages). You can also double check if this is the case by changing the audio balance in your audio configuration (e.g. move the slider all to Left or Right and see if it becomes all Eng, or all Rus.)

[Richard_G]

I doubt that it will be separate tracks, more likely the Russian is just applied to the existing audio track. I'd like a method of doing it in real time. My wife is from Belarus and whenever we visit I've noticed that their TV channels show a lot of English language films that have had Russian dubbed over the top of the English at a slightly higher level. Boy is it annoying! I'm used to hearing Russian langauage being spoken but it's like trying to listen to the TV when someone is shouting over the top of it!

The reason I say it is unlikely to be separate tracks is that my brother-in-law has a stereo TV and we tried moving the balance from one channel to the other to see if I could watch in English and both tracks had both languages. Mind you, this does assume that the Belteleradiocompany transmits in stereo......

[pattirose]

thank you so much Deathray you rock!!

[redwudz]

That method of overlaying the Russian translation over the English audio is quite common with some videos from Russia off the net. I'm not aware of any way to fix it if it's on both channels, except to turn off the audio and read the subs instead if they are even included.

[pattirose]

okay, this is what it told me:
one video stream and one audio stream,
this is for the audio stream
128Kbps,48.0 KHz, 2 channels, MPEG audio (MP3) version 1 Layer 3 joint stereo

I tried the left and right speaker thing and it was the same track.

I will try audacity now, as it wouldn't dload before but it seems to work now.

EDIT: audacity doesn't support the avi file.

[guns1inger]

You will have to demux the audio to either a wav or mp3 file to use it in Audacity. You can do this easily with virtualdubmod.

However you are wasting your time. You cannot remove the dubbing.

[tomlee59]

okay, this is what it told me:
one video stream and one audio stream,
this is for the audio stream
128Kbps,48.0 KHz, 2 channels, MPEG audio (MP3) version 1 Layer 3 joint stereo

I tried the left and right speaker thing and it was the same track.

I will try audacity now, as it wouldn't dload before but it seems to work now.

EDIT: audacity doesn't support the avi file.

You're pretty much SOL, I'm afraid. The audio wasn't recorded on separate channels, so unmixing them is not going to happen. Audacity can do many wonderful things, but unmixing is unlikely. Under very special circumstances, it is possible to effect a partial suppression, but movies rarely satisfy these special circumstances.

[pattirose]

I had a feeling it wouldn't be possible or if it was it would be too difficult for me to figure out how to do it but I thought I'd ask just in case there was an easy fix. I thank everyone for taking the time to post here - I appreciate it.

[thedeamon]

this is possible using VST plugin ( which enable us to supress audio freq from source audio files ) Extra_Boy.

"DJ Twist & Burn" is a program which can do it from a supported audio file with Extra_Boy plugin ( Vocal Removal 3 method ) with the following settings:

Preset - "Full Spectrum (HR)"
Spread - 5-10%

Stereolize! - Enabled
Spreadilate! - enabled

You can also use "Acoustica Mixcraft" with "Elevayta.Extra.Boy.Pro.v4.91d.VST-AMPLiFY" package.

Hope this helps!

[jman98]

I can't believe I missed this one when it first came around last summer. I usually comment on this type of question. It comes up just about every year.

Here's a Wikipedia article on what the original poster is talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilov_translation
It basically has a voice actor (using that term "actor" VERY loosely here) or actors speaking Russian on top of the original dialogue. Under ideal circumstances the original dialogue will be very difficult to hear. Some of this type of overdub is better than others. In the worst examples the single voice actor seems to be translating the dialogue on the fly, so it trails behind what is said and it is often very monotone.

I have no idea how well thedeamon's suggestion will work, but it's better than nothing. This type of voice over is rarely if ever done in Russia on modern Hollywood films. They almost always have proper Russian only soundtracks created for them. This must be an older film. Note that this is NOT in any way like Asian VCDs with Mandarin on one side and Cantonese on the other. The soundtracks for this type of thing are mono and there is no separate channel for either Russian or the original language.

[Machera]

Tried thedeamon's approach but unfortunately tis a no go !! Any other suggestions now that I have mixcraft and the extra boy plugin ???

[F4RR3LL]

Open Your AVI file with VLC Media player , Go to Audio , Audio Track , and you'll find the aviliable languages . ^_^

[guns1inger]

Open Your AVI file with VLC Media player , Go to Audio , Audio Track , and you'll find the aviliable languages . ^_^

In this particular instance there is only one audio track. This isn't a case of a separate language track being played, but the second language being recorded over the top of the original audio, so a single combined track remains. VLC, or any other player capable of selecting different tracks (MPC will work just as well) will not help.

[jagabo]

You will have to demux the audio to either a wav or mp3 file to use it in Audacity.

If you add the ffmpeg plugin Audacity can extract the audio directly from the video file.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index...#installffmpeg

[Gavino]

You will have to demux the audio to either a wav or mp3 file to use it in Audacity.

If you add the ffmpeg plugin Audacity can extract the audio directly from the video file.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index...#installffmpeg

True, but as guns1inger went on to say:

However you are wasting your time. You cannot remove the dubbing.

[jagabo]

You will have to demux the audio to either a wav or mp3 file to use it in Audacity.

If you add the ffmpeg plugin Audacity can extract the audio directly from the video file.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index...#installffmpeg

True, but as guns1inger went on to say:

However you are wasting your time. You cannot remove the dubbing.

I just wanted to clear up the part about demuxing the audio in case someone else reads this thread in the future.