VOBs with multiple audio tracks (virtualdubmod)

[nanite2000]

Hello,

I have been trying to convert my DVDs to AVIs for archiving purposes, and I want to maintain the commentary tracks that they come with. It was my understanding that Virtualdubmod could handle multiple audio streams, but when I import a VOB into it I get asked which Audio stream I want to use, but I don't have an option to select both.

Even under the streams list there does not appear to be a way to add the additional audio track directly from the VOB, although Virtualdubmod must be able to read the VOB as it recognises there are 2 tracks when opening it for the first time.

Have I missed a trick here? Is Virtualdubmod just not able to do this yet? Is there a plugin that will allow this?

Apologies if I am asking this in the wrong forum - the Virtualdubmod forum does not appear to be working.

[Bjs]

Virtualmod dosent handle multiple audio stripping directly in one go , just choose the one you want from the available list ... telling who is who is not part of vdub either ... you need to know that before hand .

If dvd is on pc hd , run dvdshrink at it ... just a scan .

You will then have all the information regarding which audio channel is which .

In order to process multiple audio with virtualmod , you choose which channel , and it is best to choose decode to pcm wav ... a lot less problem's .

In order to process multiple audio channel's you need to process the first channel of interest to pcm ... then close vdub and reopen the vob title again , then choose the next audio channel of interest .

Remember if title spead's over multple vob's , you need to use a LST file ... it's a text file like ...

C:\vts_01_1.vob
C:\vts_01_2.vob
C:\vts_01_3.vob
C:\vts_01_4.vob
C:\vts_01_5.vob ... ect

If more than 10 , rename last number like , 01 , 02 , 03 ... ten is 10 , 11 ... ect .

Choose save , name file as vts_01.lst ... change save type to "all files" , save file to same location as vob's ...

Open vts_01.lst using virtualmod only .

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You could also open the first vob of title in vobedit , choose demux , audio channel sellection ... also chose "demux complete title set" and process .

Use besweet to convert these to wav format .

While in vobedit , go to file ... get video / audio delay ... handy to know ...

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As for multiple audio file's in avi ... have a sticky at this guide :

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/dual-audio.htm

[jagabo]

Demultiplex the audio tracks with another application (I use TMPGEnc Plus) then import the AC3 files into VirtualDubMod's stream list.

[manono]

Or open one or multiple vobs in DGIndex and File->Save Project. It'll give you all the original audio tracks. It can also decode to WAV, although I don't know why you'd want to.

You can also use the D2V Project File it creates in an AviSynth script which can be filtered (IVTC'd, Cropped, Resized, etc.) and then opened in VDubMod for encoding in Fast Recompress. Better quality and much faster encoding than opening and encoding vobs directly using Full Processing.