Dual Language Films

[Witchypoo]

I have an avi film with dual sound tracks, Spanish and English, with Spanish as the default track.
I want the English track only and to burn the file to DVD using Nero 8
In a previous post (2003) it was suggested that Sound Forge would do the job.
I have downloaded this program and tried it however it only seems to pick up the default track.
Is there another program out there which can do the job or have i not used the program properly.
Can Nero 8 do the job?
Help!

[poisondeathray]

1) open your .avi in virtualdubmod

2) streams => stream list

3) it will list the audio tracks, press disable on the spanish track (it will become shaded in). for the english track, right click it an make sure "direct stream copy" is selected

4) video=>select direct stream copy

5) file=>save as

Basically what this does is stream copy the video and english audio into a new .avi container. This only works if what you have is truly dual track. If what you have is dual channel, single track (L, R different languages), there is another process for this, just come back let us know.

So now you have a single english track .avi to convert to dvd with whatever you want. You could use favc, convertxtodvd, or even nero

cheers

[Witchypoo]

OK, downloaded Virtualdubmod but there is an error when extracting "Corona.dll not found" yet it is there in the extracted folder.

[poisondeathray]

Weird. It might be a vista incompatibility problem. Are you running as administrator? Try downloading it again

Another method for the same thing using avidemux to remove 1 audio track:

1) Open your file in avidemux

2) Audio=>Main Track (you with see a drop down menu for track from video, numbered 0,1,2,etc...) Select either 0 or 1 corresponding to the english or spanish. You can press play to check to see if it's the right one

3) Leave the video & audio sidebar set to "copy", and the format sidebar to "avi"

4) Press save with extension (e.g. "myfile.avi")

Once again this is for dual track audio; not dual language channel single track.

Cheers

[iant]

Sorry folks but there's a much easier way to do this. Just use AVIMuxGUI (See in the Tools section under Video Muxer/Demuxer)

When you've got multiple soundtracks, this will allow you to recreate the avi using only one.
Have Fun,
Ian

[Ai Haibara]

VirtualDubMod is a bit more dependent upon things being in specific folders than VirtualDub (it uses a couple of extra components, including corona.dll) The corona.dll error is common if you don't unzip the VirtualDubMod archive with all the subfolders in it intact. (It's also common if you download one of the 'update' archives, which I believe only include the main .EXE and not much else... but Witchypoo already confirmed corona.dll is there.)

If you still want to try VDubMod, to avoid conflicts, you might remove the existing version and extract everything from the archive again, with everything in the proper subdirectories.

(It's not an issue with Vista; I have VDubMod working fine under Vista, XP and Win98. )

[Witchypoo]

Thanks everybody for all your help.
I did eventually use avidemux to select the English track.