multi-audio-track-Divx AVI to xVCD

[tito13kfm]

I have a downloaded video clip that is multi-audio-track encoded. When I go to play in winblows media player it just plays the english on top of the french on top of the spanish :P. I figured out how to view it properly using Media player classic, but have no idea where to begin to convert this.

If i use Virtual dub to dump the audio will all the tracks come with it?
Is it possible to (wrong word coming up, but i'm a newb.) demux the audio tracks into the 3 seperate streams?

o yeah.. 1 more hurdle, the english track is AC3 (44100hz i think), while the french and spanish are Lame mp3 down-sampled to 32000hz.

Any clue as to where to begin?
Any good guides that deal with this?
Should I write one if I figure this out?

[tito13kfm]

ok.. I think my problem is I don't have a proper AC3 codec installed.
Installing it now, hopefully this will allow virtualdub to dump the audio and I can deal with it from there.

I tried just converting with tmpgenc but it locks it up as soon as I load the file.

If anybody has any info please help.

[tito13kfm]

I have succesfully ripped the english audio track after getting the right codec installed, but now i'm having a problem getting tmpgenc to handle this task.

I tried frameserving the video and then loading the audio seperately, but it just locks up and says not responding, I would save the video out as an AVI but that would be 18gigs uncompressed, I would compress again, but it's already a crappy Divx and I want to retain as much from the original as I can.

If anybody has a suggestion I'm all ears.

[tito13kfm]

ok.. i'm an idiot.
had to process it in tmpgenc as ES files, wouldn't output a full mpg, i'll just multiplex them together after the encode and hopefully this will work.

So what have I learned by working through this problem on my own.
1. Nothing is impossible with google.
1a. No matter what you search for on google you will eventually end up at a porn site.
2. The shortest distance between 2 points is usually a twisting winding road with many hills.
3. RTFM

If anybody feels a walkthrough/guide would be helpful for this I'll do it, but it was pretty much straight forward once I figured out that tmpgenc doesn't like ac3 audio on my computer.

[tito13kfm]

Well that didn't work.

But a quick search of the guides and BLAMMO!! Thank you Baldrick!
Since I finally knew what I was up against, and what my major problem was I could intelligently search the guides for my answer.

In a word the answer was GoldWave.

Now my next question, since my sorce AVI has multiple audio tracks, and I only speak english this doesn't really matter to me, but what if I only spoke spanish and I needed to rip the second audio track out of the file, is this possible?

well back to the guides!