VCD Dual-Audio to AVI

[amadeira]

Hi,
I have many VCD's that have dual-audio that I want to convert it to Divx-AVI with only one of the audio in it, can someone HELP?
Alberto

[Baldrick]

I guess they have different audio in left and right stereo channels? or?

[amadeira]

Yes, they have two language, one on the left channel and the other is on the right channel.

[Baldrick]

I have not seen any converter that fixes this automatically so I guess you have to extract the audio(like with virtualdub, open .dat from vcd, file->save audio) and use an audio editor like audacity and remove one channel and save as a wav mono audio. Then use that audio file in the converter(like virtualdub again, open .dat from vcd, audio->source audio and choose the video file, video->compression choose avi xvid, file->save avi).

Maybe someone else knows an easier way for this though.

[jagabo]

You can use VirtualDub's advanced audio filtering to remove one channel.

[Baldrick]

It seems easier yes. .

So in Virtualdub
Open .dat from vcd
Audio->Full processing
Audio->Use advanced filtering
Audio->Filters and the settings by jagabo above
Audio->Compression and choose mp3 (install lame mp3 acm if you can't see any mp3)
Video->Compression choose divx or xvid (install the divx codec or the xvid codec if you can't see any divx or xvid)
File->Save avi

Done!

[amadeira]

Thanks, I'm downloading the Virtualdub and Audacity now and will try it.

[amadeira]

I have follow exactly the steps but when I save it to AVI, it gives me an error "Error initializing audio stream compression: The audio codec cannot compress the source audio to the desired format." I try various formats for the audio but it gives me the same error.

[Baldrick]

If you don't add any audio filters can you convert then?

[amadeira]

I have made it now, just select Lame MP3 and NOT select any bitrate, don't know why but selecting any bitrate it gives me the error.
Thank you guys.

[jagabo]

Use the Audio Conversion section to set the audio paramters to 44.1 or 48 KHz, 16 bit, stereo, high quality. Select the compression after setting the audio parameters.