DIRECT Conversion of Dual Audio OGM + SSA to RMVB?

[bundat]

Hey there.
I'm used to converting AVI to RMVB quickly via a program for dummies called Easy RealMedia Producer.

I also have experience converting MKV (AVI + SSA + MP3) into RMVB.
Although I had to mux them together by using VirtualDubMod first.

My question is, is there a way to directly go from OGM (with dual audio) to RMVB, without having to encode the OGM into an AVI first? Because the current method I have is to encode first into an AVI i.e. (to mux the video only with only one of the audio streams I had demuxed earlier, and hard subbing it as well while encoding via a VirtualDubMod filter).

THEN convert the AVI into RMVB.

But it takes too much time (since each video has to be demuxed, then encoded into XviD first), and has to be done manually. The extra encoding time and extra disk space is just too much for me to handle, since I'll be doing more than 200 episodes.

Is there a way I can skip the "demux, then DivX encode+MP3 mux + hard subbing" stage?
i.e. Can I just encode it straight from a DirectShow source?

IIRC, my RMVB encoder can accept AviSynth files... so is there a way to do it via that?
i.e. produce a directshow output that selects a SPECIFIC audio channel and also adds in an SSA file?

Then maybe I can just make a bunch of AVS files and put them in a batch job on my RMVB encoder? :P

I know almost nothing about AVS... so I ask for your help.

[celtic_druid]

Producer takes input via dshow, so if you can play it, it should be able to convert it. Multiple audio streams I think would be an issue, I don't think rmvb supports them anyway. There are GUI's though that do RV9EHQ video, but in an mkv container.

As for AVISynth. directshowsource() should work fine for ogm/mkv files. Provided once again that you can play them via dshow. For hardsubbing, if you aren't rendering them via dshow, then you can use textsub() to add them. If you are rendering subs via dshow then you would need to disable caching for ssa effects (karaoke, etc.).

[bundat]

So... a couple of questions.
How do I select just one audio stream in the OGM file using directshowsource() ?
I really just want japanese audio in the RMVB file, I can just discard the other audio (spanish IIRC... or was it russian?)

And textsub() is something I do in AviSynth script to render subs in the DirectShow output?

So basically my 2 questions are:
- how to select only one audio stream for AviSynth in a dual audio OGM
- can AviSynth render separate SSA files along with the output video?

Sorry if it's a noobish question.
I'm sort of intimidated by the AviSynth scripting guides so I'm lost as where to start.

[celtic_druid]

Not sure how directshowsource() would handle multiple audio streams. Guess it would depend on your ogm splitter and other filters anyway. Safest is probably to remux with just the audio you want first.

textsub("whatever.ssa") will render the subs. It is not an internal AVISynth function though. You need to download VSFilter.

[bundat]

Guess it would depend on your ogm splitter and other filters anyway.

It definitely did.
I had to right click the DirectVobSub tray icon and switch the audio to Japanese.
This would seem troublesome to do for each entry out of the 200+ in the batch job I'll be setting so...

Is there a way I can select the default audio stream in DVS to be japanese? Because it ALWAYS keeps on picking the other one as default, everytime, for each OGM file I open. So i have to set it to japanese EACH and EVERY time.

[killerhex]

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Realanime 4.2.0
version 5 is very buggy

RealAnime is an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface to convert DIVX files and other formats into smaller files using state-of-the-art technology. All you need is to drop your video files in, tweak the settings and start the encode. RealAnime will encode all your files in a row.

The main codecs are x264 and aacPlus v2, but RealAnime also supports XviD, RealVideo 10, AAC HE, AAC LC, Vorbis and MP3. It also supports multi-track inputs like OGM, MKV and MP4, letting you choose what to keep.

RealAnime is Freeware and Open Source, licensed under GNU GPL v2

the rmvb doesnt support multiple audio i tried and it hasnt worked for me

you can choose which audio you want or subtitles if you want to keep all the subs and audio then use the matroska contain which will let you keep both audio and all subs

it let you use 3 containers .mkv[matroska] .rmvb[Real v/a] .mp4[usually used for h264 and i think ASP[xvid]