3 audio streams in 2 channels in Premiere

[Filippo]

Hello,
in adobe premier I put this video file which has 3 audio: Stereo Italian, 5.1 Italian Stero Japanese.
However, when I put it in Premiere, I see only 2 audio tracks, and if I solo each track, one is italian and the plays italian and japanese together at the same time. This happens even if I create a sequence by dragging the video on the new sequence button. I think it's a premiere error of interpretation because in MKVToolNix and ffmpeg the streams are 3, not 2. How can I fix this?

Thanks

Stream #0:1(ita): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      title           : Surround 5.1
      BPS-eng         : 448000
      DURATION-eng    : 01:28:36.512000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 166141
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 297724672
      SOURCE_ID-eng   : 0180BD
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: [url=https://www.videohelp.com/software/MakeMKV]MakeMKV[/url] v1.18.1 win(x64-release)
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2025-10-09 16:41:52
      _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES SOURCE_ID
  Stream #0:2(ita): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s
    Metadata:
      title           : Stereo
      BPS-eng         : 192000
      DURATION-eng    : 01:28:36.512000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 166141
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 127596288
      SOURCE_ID-eng   : 0181BD
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: MakeMKV v1.18.1 win(x64-release)
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2025-10-09 16:41:52
      _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES SOURCE_ID
  Stream #0:3(jpn): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s
    Metadata:
      title           : Stereo
      BPS-eng         : 192000
      DURATION-eng    : 01:28:36.512000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 166141
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 127596288
      SOURCE_ID-eng   : 0182BD
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: MakeMKV v1.18.1 win(x64-release)
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2025-10-09 16:41:52
      _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES SOURCE_ID

[videoAI]

Please post a sample so we can help you faster.

[Filippo]

Please post a sample so we can help you faster.

Here is a 10 sec sample: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zRXf1fpa2SlumPt_xqKru5M55gmQwKGc/view?usp=drive_link

this is how it looks in Premiere
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[videoAI]

Your share link says access denied and asks me to login

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zRXf1fpa2SlumPt_xqKru5M55gmQwKGc/view?usp=drive_link

[Filippo]

Your share link says access denied and asks me to login

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zRXf1fpa2SlumPt_xqKru5M55gmQwKGc/view?usp=drive_link

Should be fixed now

[videoAI]

Since I don't have Premier, I'm gonna take a guess that it either:
1- doesn't like the 6 Channels [possible channel mapping issue?], or
2- doesn't support ac3 @448 kb/s [possible bit rate limit?]

try:
1- reducing stream 1 to ac3, 6 ch, 192 kb/s first, and try it again in Premier
2- if that doesn't work, try re-mapping the 6-channels layout

you can do both in clever FFmpeg-GUI

Stream 0:0, Video, mpeg2video, 6536 kb/s, 720 x 576, 1.78, 25 fps, eng
Stream 0:1, Audio, ac3, 6 Channels, 448 kb/s, ita
Stream 0:2, Audio, ac3, 2 Channels, 192 kb/s, ita
Stream 0:3, Audio, ac3, 2 Channels, 192 kb/s, jpn
Stream 0:4, Subtitle, dvd_subtitle, ita
Stream 0:5, Subtitle, dvd_subtitle, ita
---> Chapters

[Attachment 90199 - Click to enlarge]

[ProWo]

Could be a muxing issue.
Retry with both remuxed samples.

[videoAI]

I noticed that Premier displays all your audio streams as 5.1.
That's odd !!, Isn't 2 of them stereo [2 ch]?
so, it doesn't recognize the included 5.1 stream, but it flags all audio stereo streams as 5.1 !!

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