REPLACE AUDIO TRACK on DVD...

[NomisQC]

I need a tutorial on how to replace for example the GERMAN audio track by a FRENCH audio track I recorded on a VHS.

The DVD does not exist with the audio track...

Is it possible to do that while KEEPING the MENUS, EXTRAS, ETC...

How ?

Thanks !

[manono]

Hi-

Demux (PGCDemux), reauthor (IFOEdit, Muxman, etc.), this time with your different audio track replacing the original one, and finally replace within the original DVD using VobBlanker. If you also want to change the text in the audio menu so that your new language track (German) replaces the original (French), then you might follow this guide:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=555936#post555936

The DVD does not exist with the audio track...

So, am I to assume that German isn't the original language? And if not, why would you want to watch it in any language other than the original? Unless maybe it's a children's movie, where young children can't read the subtitles.

[NomisQC]

The movie is in english originally...the just did not release the french track on the DVD...

I'm ok to watch it in english but it's a comedy with classic jokes in french that I used to watch when I was a kid ( french is my first language) so I want to make a DVD version with the french track...

I already edited the menu following that guide ! Now I just need to replace the audio but I can't figure it out...

Can you elaborate a little or give me links to guides ?

Thanks in advance !

[manono]

Hi-

Sorry about switching German and French in my reply. So, you altered the menu (hard), but can't do the other things (easy)?

DEMUX: Open PGCDemux, also check the "Demux Video Stream" box, and save it somewhere.

REAUTHOR: Add the Assets, video, audio, subs, chapters, you got from PGCDemux, switching the new language audio for the old one. Here's an IFOEdit guide:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/120013.php

Your chapters will come from the Cellfiles.txt file created by PGCDemux.

REPLACE: That will give you IFO, BUP, and VOB files, a kind of mini-DVD of the main movie with no menu. You can play it to check on the new audio. To replace that movie in the original DVD, keeping the menus and extras, you use the "Replace" button in VobBlanker. I can't find a guide for that. It's too easy. Open your original DVD. Find the VTS with your movie and click it. In the lower window click on the PGC containing your movie. To the right, hit the "Replace" button and browse to your newly authored mini-DVD. Click on the "VTS_01_0.IFO". Select an Output Folder (place to save the final DVD) up near the top, and then hit "Process" to the right of the top window. Pay attention to any error messages during processing. Warnings usually aren't bad. Test the new DVD in a software player, and then burn to disc. If you also want to alter the German to French for your remote control later, that is, change the language in the IFO, use PGCEdit for that. Open the finished DVD in PGCEdit, double-click on the Movie, hit "Current Domain Stream Attributes" in the lower left corner of the new screen, change de to fr, OK your way out of there and Save.

Good Luck.

[NomisQC]

Thank you very much for your help...I currently am converting my WAV to an AC3 but at least I know it's possible...

I used VobBlanker to replace cells for menu editing but I did not know I could replace whole Vobs or Pgcs...

I'll give you an update when I'm done...

Thanks again for your time !

[NomisQC]

It seems to work but there is only one little problem remaining...

The new VOB I created with the main movie including the new audio track contains only 1 CELL but the original movie contained somethin like 28.

Ain't this going to affect the chapters navigation and/or scene selection in the menu ??

Is there a way to keep the cell formatting of the original file while demuxing/remuxing ?

If not, can I use Ifoedit or else to segment the fil in cells at the same place as the original ??

Thanks

// EDIT
I found out how to export Cells configuration in PGCEDIT and import them in muxman to keep the chapters....

[manono]

Hi-

You got it figured out? Good. I think you're doing it the hard way though. I think you didn't add the cells/chapters when authoring in the first place. PGCDemux creates the Cellfiles.txt when demuxing. That contains the list of cells by frame number. These are compatible with IFOEdit and Muxman. I gave you the guide for IFOEdit. Muxman is pretty easy, but you also have to enter that Cellfile.txt into Muxman if you want chapters for your DVD. It's kind of hidden away in the upper left button of Muxman, File->Import Chapter.

One thing I forgot to mention. When altering a DVD as radically as you're doing, it's a good idea to do a Get VTS Sectors in IFOEdit when you're all done. Open one of the IFOs (Bottom Left of IFOEdit), and hit the "Get VTS Sectors" button (further to the right along the bottom). Click "Yes" to the question. If nothing happens, then good. If it makes a bunch of changes, it's also probably still good, but test the DVD thoroughly in a softwere player before burning to disc.

[NomisQC]

I figured it out using exactly the way you described and I'm now finished.


Everything is working fine, new Audio with French label on it and edited menu. I'm pretty proud of the result...

The only problem is it's PAL instead of NTSC...my player does read it but I'm trying to convert it for friends and stuff...

I'm trying to use NUMENU4U but it crashes....

Anyway, I'm happy with what I've got !

Thanks for all your help...I feel I've learned a lot and a new project of the same type would be much easier now !

[manono]

Hi-

I'm pretty proud of the result...

You should be, as that was quite a project. You know something? The first time I used the "Replace" button in VobBlanker, I also had instructions from a friend, so I was glad to pass on the help. But when I was all done, I thought the whole thing was so easy that I kicked myself for not figuring it out. And I also found the authoring part quite easy. I was much more proud after altering a menu and replacing it back into the DVD for the first time. I thought that was hard. Strange, eh?

I'm trying to use NUMENU4U but it crashes....

Yeah, me too. I've had no luck with NuMenu4U. I haven't tried it for a while. Maybe the latest version will work. Or maybe there's something wrong with my Scenarist. It always choked on that part. So I did it a different way. I reencoded the movie (I was doing PAL2NTSC also). You can do it by either resizing and slowing the video and audio to 23.976fps and running pulldown on the video after, or by resizing and keeping both at 25fps and running DGPulldown 25->29.97fps after. Then I used DVDAuthorGUI to author. If your menu is a static menu, it's pretty easy, but even moving menus aren't too hard. But I captured all the menus as BMP using DGIndex, although there are other ways to do that also. I resized them to 720x480 in a Photo Editor. I wrote down all the coordinates for where I wanted the buttons for the new menu. I opened DVDAuthorGUI and made M2V of all my resized menu screens, and authored from there, creating buttons and all the navigation stuff. It's also not so hard. It just takes some time. The website has a decent guide.

There's another (and maybe easier) way to change the menu as well, although I haven't tried it. You know how you changed that one menu for the new language? You can change them all that way. Resize them all for NTSC and replace them all back into the original menu. If any are moving menus, you'd better use DGPulldown 25->29.97 so the audio still matches up. That will give you an NTSC menu, but with all the buttons in slightly the wrong place. You can then realign the buttons in PGCEdit. You can also realign them using MenuEdit, perhaps more easily. Like I say, I haven't done this myself, but it should work.

You're welcome for the help.

[Ruude]

Hi, I did all the necesarry steps and got a new DVD, but there is no audio anymore. What could have gone wrong?

[Baldrick]

no audio on your standalone dvd player? or/and software dvd player?

[Ruude]

Strangely only in software-(PowerDVD)-player. Burned a DVD-RW and audio worked. Also when opening in DVDShrink, audio was present. Had to change audio code from LPCM to AC3 in the VTS (PGCedit) manually though.

Now this was a multistep process. Isn't there a program that does all of this in one go?


---EDIT---
No sound in portable player (Mustek 510) either.

[Rokk]

I need similar help with re-authoring a dvd I bought. I bought a Region 1 copy of Atomic Twister but was gypped by getting as version with French audio and no subs instead of the original English audio. I was able to download a dvdrip of the English version and extracted the English ac3 audio.

So I want to strip the French audio and insert the English audio in its place.

I ripped my dvd to iso and then extracted the vobs.
I have pgcdemux but it isn't working right; it won't demux the audio from the video_ts.ifo; only the ts_01, which is useless to me. Is there another program which will work? Or an easy fix to just swap in the English audio, since the video doesn't need to be changed at all?

I made an mkv of the downloaded movie and can play that on my media player, but it has no chapters, and I'd rather not make a dvd with artificial chapters when I have an actual retail dvd and menu to work with.

I hope someone can help.