Dual Audio Tracks in SVCD. Best way to Extract/Encode?

[FredC]

I have been experimenting with a couple rips and using both the regular track and commentary track. I'm using Jon's 57 min SVCD template, and tweaking audio/cq up depending on the length of the movie. I do this for each half of the movie, so I have the video and regular audio. What is the best way to get the commentary track? I've been using the same start/end points and change the video settings to 352x/256 fastest/lowest quality and encoding. Then I demultiplex each file and remultiplex both tracks intoe the video using BBMpeg.

I tried to use System(Audio Only) but the output is a *.m2p which I can't listen to so I think it does the whole track as opposed to the halves that I have split the movie to. When I demultiplex, I get *.mp2 files which I can preview.

Any suggestion on a better way to do this?

[FredC]

Anyone? Is this probably the best way?

[adam]

I'm kinda confused by your post. Are you saying you encode the whole movie twice just for the extra audio track? Man what a waste of time.

You should really just encode the whole movie at once but if you want to do it separately just do this...

In dvd2avi, set you start and end point...select track 1 on audio and create the project file. now change the track to whatever the commentary track is...make another project file. Do the same for the second disk.

Take your d2v file and encode in TMPGenc...you'll get an m2v file.

Now you have 2 wav files for each half...just encode each of them to m2p. You should be able to listen to these in any wav player, if you cant then try re-installing media player.

Now take your m2v and your two m2p's and multiplex them all in bbmpeg.

Hint: if you want to knock hours off your encoding time skip the 48kHz->44.1kHz in dvd2avi. Do it in TMPGenc with an external frequency changer instead. just look in environmental settings. Its faster and much higher quality too.

[Nostradumbass]

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Now take your m2v and your two m2p's and multiplex them all in bbmpeg.
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I tried this and even though my Pioneer 434 is listed (on VCD Help's site) and appears (in the audio menu selection) to support two audio tracks I can only access the first track.

[VidGuy]

Did you hit the audio menu button on your remote - On my Pioneer 333 that cycles me through track 1 stereo, left, right, then track 2 stereo, left right.