Help needed in backup dvd languages

[karlthethird]

When i used sefys guide to ripping dvds i went through every step perfectly until it came to veiwing my finished mpeg product on my computer.
When i veiwed it the language was in French not English as i would of preffered it to be, this is a problem as i dont understand French and i can not change the language easily as you could when in a dvd menu.
Can anyone help? Is there a setting somewherrre along sefys guide that needs to be altered?
Thankyou.

[aldus4]

I'm not quite sure which Guide you are talking about, but I presume you are using DVD2AVI. This is where you choose which language(s) you want to convert. If you go into "Audio" of DVD2AVI the setting "track" is important. Normally with US DVD's the No.1 language (track 1) language is english. But some may differ. To make sure which language you are converting, put your DVD into your DVD player, keep pressing audio (normally at the same time a little info message appears, saying audio 1 or audio 2 etc.) when you have found the english language remember the number. This is the track number you have to determine in DVD2AVI

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: aldus4 on 2001-07-07 18:08:07 ]</font>

[karlthethird]

im talking about this guide http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdripping.htm
and my dvd was region 4 (Australian)
Thankyou for your help hopefully it will come in useful

[trixiedivx]

After playing around with DVD2AVI for a little bit, I discovered that he audio track was a large part of the problems I was experiencing.

IE: on "The Green Mile" under audio you must choose track 2 (for some odd reason). I tried ripping it time and time again not knowing that.

For foreign films, often times (let's say it is a kung fu flick from china) In DVD2AVI track 1 will often times be in Chinese and perhaps track 2 may be english audio dubbed onto the film.

I am newer to this so there may be an easier way... but, Open the Vobs in DVD2AVI and goto the audio tab and select track 1. then save a sliver of the movie using "save project". you will see the video and audio file appear in the folder you save to. encode that small piece (should take 3 minutes and just play back the Mpeg outputted.

Obviously if no audio file appears when you "save project" then you will have no sound... IE: track 1 may be English, track 2 Spanish, track 3 French, track 4 will have nothing.

Hope this helps... you probably know more about this stuff than I do... =) hehe