need English from Chinese DVD

[fuzzzz]

when I backup a native English DVD, the files that DVDDecrypter gives me play on PowerDVD with sould - English. When I do the same thing with a DVD in Chinese, I get Chinese. I can select English for this DVD when I play it on stand alone equipment. How do I configure DVDDecrypter to select the English channel?

I have enabled Stream processing and checked the Video and the English stereo stream. I left "merg into 0xE0" checked. I get video with no sound. I can't find any other place to specify the sound track.

How do I get the ENglish sound track?

[Conquest10]

don't know about dvddecrypter. but in dvd2avi, its under audio>track number. there you select which track you want.

[Vejita-sama]

I think you're a little confused. The VOB files are MPEG2 files that contained multiplex: video (m2v) audio (ac3 or PCM) and subtitles. ALL of the audio tracks are multiplex into the VOB files for each VTS.

That means you rip the DVD you rip ALL of the video/audio/subs. The default audio stream is the chinese one. Here's a question how are you trying to play you ripped DVD? If you don't rip the entrire DVD you'll have problems. You can't rip just the main movie and the load/play each VOB file (this often works but is not supported by the DVD standard).

DVDs use a file structure, not a file format. When you destroy that structure things don't always work correctly. Give us the step by step process for what you've done. Also tell us what you're final goal is the tools you have to do it.

As the previous poster mentioned in DVD2AVI you need to select a different audio stream than stream 1.

[fuzzzz]

Thanks for you help!!

I am sure that I am confused.

I run DVDDcrypter to get vob files. I did not know that these files contain all audio tracks, so now I am one step further on the way.

I always leave the default setting which means it only gets the main file - ie the movie. I just did this for 90 DVDs and this is the only one that did not have English as the default language. When I do this 'normal' process, I get Chinese for this one DVD.

I play these vob files thru PowerDVD which came with my DVD reader. I only used it to play them this time because I wanted to see what audio track I had captured. I do not normally play vob files.

Normally, I run DVD2AVI next and then TMPGEnc & Nero for SVCDs.

'Normal process' vob files have a sound track. These that I tried the 'stream processing' on (not knowing what 'stream processing' is) don't have a sound track.

But the comments of both of you make me think it is the next process (DVD2AVI) which makes the language choice.

Within DVD2AVI, I had selected 'local language' to be English - not knowing where 'local' was supposed to be - this is a region 1 dvd. That did not help. Neither did selecting audio track 2 with local language set to english. Moving back to 'local language' set to 'default' and chosing audio track 2 gives me an English sound track. But it is 192 kbps rather than 384 that I am used to seeing.

What does it mean that I cut the audio data rate in half and how did I manage to do this? Is this chosing 2 channel instead of 5.1=6 channel?

The real question remaining: DVD2AVI offered me audio tracks 1, 2, 3,... how am I supposed to know which audio track is what? I have looked at the .txt file. It shows several audio options: 0x80, 0x81, 0x82, etc. Two of these are English. When I was doing the 'stream processing' at DVDDecrypt, I chose the first English one, 0x81. I suspect that this is the one I have chosen within DVD2AVI (Track 2), but the choice was blind. I actually made short test runs chosing track 1, then track 2, then track 3. then I played them and found that track 2 was English. So was Track 3 for that matter.

So how are you SUPPOSED to chose an audio track in DVD2AVI?