Karaoke VCD to DVD-R?

[Sakuya]

I have searched the forums and found many posts by nanko on this issue but nobody had any solutions. Can anybody still help me now?

I have a karaoke VCD that I would want to put on DVD. The VCD has 2 audio streams, one with voice and without voice. The VCD structure:

CDDA
CDI
EXT
KARAOKE
MPEGAV
SEGMENT
VCD

In the MPEGAV folder, there are 16 DAT files. I used VCDEasy to extract the first one and it plays fine. However, it only has background music. What happened to the voice? I found a volume control in Windows Media Player 6.4 that lets you put all the sound to the right or left. I tried both and both of them had no sound. This is weird.

Just a side note, in the KARAOKE folder listed above, it's blank. Any help is appreciated. I have a DVD authoring program that supports multiple audio streams for each track. So, is there a possible way to separate the vocal from the non-vocal into 2 separate audio files (and maybe have them be stereo). Then, add them onto DVD with interchangeable audio?

Edit:
I used TMPGEnc to extract the MP2 file then opened it in Audacity. I moved the volume slider to the right channel and the voice suddenly came on! That's so weird! Now, the problem is to separate the voice from the music. Thanks!

[Jean]

Hi,

I'm trying to copy my karaoke VCDs to DVD and search this site and found your post. Were you able to copy karaoke VCDs to DVD? If yes, are you able to supress an audio stream on DVD? If tried, but couldn't remove any audio channel on DVD player.

Thanks,
Jean

[Sakuya]

No, I gave up. But you can try using Audacity or some other audio editor (Cool Edit Pro is preferred) and then selecting just the right/left channels, create a new audio file, paste that channel in, duplicate it to make it stereo and then save as WAV.

As for multiple audio DVD, I suggest using the free and very good DVDAuthorGUI. Fairly easy for that part. The hardest thing here is the mono-to-stereo conversion.

[MpegEncoder]

As for multiple audio DVD, I suggest using the free and very good DVDAuthorGUI. Fairly easy for that part. The hardest thing here is the mono-to-stereo conversion.

GUI_for_dvdauthor is much better.

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=GUI_for_dvdauthor