.AVI files with a dual language audio

[mickey sabbath]

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help me with a rather complex encoding question. I have an .avi file of an obscure film called Amen (another excellent Costa-Gavras film, by the way) which contains a a bi-lingual audio format, one soundtrack in French, another in English, with the French serving as the default. (This presents no problem when playing the file via VLN's media player because I can select the language format; Windows Media Player, in contrast, plays both contemporaneously and is thus useless. Surprise.)

My problem is that I would like to convert the movie to .mpeg and create a VCD or SVCD of it. However, the French audio format serves as the default setting and when I use CuCusoft's .avi to VCD/SVCD program, the converter only seems to recognize the French version. One time it even merged the two languages in a fascinating but incomprehensible jibberish. (Incidentally, AViCodec has identified each audio format as containing the same MPEG Level-3 codec)

Is there a way for me to extract the French audio file or alternatively to change the .avi file's default setting so I can burn the English version onto VCD or SVCD?

I would be grateful for any suggestions, recommendations, or relevant info.

I'm a little bit of a VCD dilletante so feel free to recommend a better/faster conversion program or any other relevant utility. After TPMG and NERO failed to create manageable file sizes for SVCD's, I've been using CuCuSoft Avi's converter Pro 2.5 in conjunction with SurfSecret's DVD Burn for the conversion process and then Nero for burning, with great success thus far. AMen, notwithstanding, of course. But I'm always receptive to newer and better utlilites.

[ying0yang]

just a suggestion , but dont know if it will work , never try it.

but if you extract the audio from the file and open the audio via sound forge . maybe you will got the 2 different audio track then you can save only the one you want

like i tell you , never try it so maybe will not work.

good luck

[mickey sabbath]

How do I extract the audio? Is there a program I should use for extracting or did you mean I should use sound forge for both extraction and for the opening/saving procedure?

[andylouie]

to mux it is easy but to unmux it is not possible.. tons of problems with audio and video synch.

[Drakng]

OK it's not too difficult Actually quite easy!!! Load your avi file in VirtualdubMode Here you can select either track to save as wav file Just untick the other track when saving. Very fast finished in minutes.