Is there anyway to edit 5.1 audio from a DVD movie?

[mjvgiese]

I'm wanting to edit a small portion of 5.1 audio from a movie I have. What I'm wanting to do is remove the channel containing the background music, so just the persons voice is heard, and not the music. (I'm assuming the voice and music will be on separate channels.)

Is there anyway to do this? I need it to be a free program, or a demo version would be fine too. The portion of audio I want to edit is only about 10 seconds long.

Any suggestions? I would sure appreciate it.....

[Pinstripes23]

I've never done this before where you edit a small section. But you could split the channels to 6 mono wavs using besweet. Then open up the wav files containing the background music in an editor. Cut the sections that contain the 10 seconds, and fill it with silence. Then re-encode the 6 mono wavs back to 5.1 using besweet. That would be my basic workflow for this kind of project.

[Wile_E]

Goldwave, Sony Soundforge and Sony Vegas will open these files. There are demos of each available.

[InXess]

Nero 7 has ac3 capable sound editor (Nero WaveEditor 3) built-in. Never tried it though.
http://ww2.nero.com/nero7/enu/index.html

[takearushfan]

(I'm assuming the voice and music will be on separate channels.)

Never assume ...
I've discovered that it seems more common for a 5.1 mix to have vocals and music together than not to... though, it depends on the mix. What are you editing?