choosing audio stream in a matroska (MKV) file

[walaj]

Hi - I've got a file with two seperate audio streams in it - Is there anyway of choosing (forcing even) which audio stream should be played by default - currently the wrong one is being picked up.

Ideally, this should be transparent to the software used to provide the playback (as it doesn't have an audio stream selector)


J

[celtic_druid]

Run it through mkvmerge/mmg and change the default track. Changing streams would depend on your player. i.e. if you are running mplayer then it would be -aid 1 or -alang eng, etc. but that won't be any help if you aren't using mplayer for playback.

Is it actually a MKS file or a MKV? Because MKS is supposed to be for subtitles. MKV for video and MKA for audio.

[walaj]

Run it through mkvmerge/mmg and change the default track. Changing streams would depend on your player. i.e. if you are running mplayer then it would be -aid 1 or -alang eng, etc. but that won't be any help if you aren't using mplayer for playback.

ok - will give it a go...

Is it actually a MKS file or a MKV? Because MKS is supposed to be for subtitles. MKV for video and MKA for audio.

oops - it is a MKV file - just has 2 subs, 3 audio tracks, 1 video, and 4 bitmaps!


J

[walaj]

that did it - marked the audio track I wanted as default (and removed some tracks that I didn't need.

thanks.