Remove audio stream w/ Virtualdubmod failure!

[ministryofmind]

So I have some .avi with two audio streams and I'm trying to disable the english one so that the japanese will load automatically when I play the files. When I go to the stream list and then disable one, and then select video--> direct stream copy and save as a new file, it'll do the quick processing bit. But ... it reports 0 audio bytes are being written. So the new .avi when replayed doesn't have any audio in it, not even the subtitles.

What am I doing wrong?

[redwudz]

Normally, that should have worked. But try using 'Full processing mode' and see if that works. If not, save out the audio as a WAV and convert to a different format. I use ffmpeggui and convert to AC3. Then you can 'Add' it back in with VDM and do a quick save 'Direct stream copy'.

[celtic_druid]

Your source file is definatly an avi and not say an mkv or ogm?

[manono]

I agree it should have worked if it's an AVI. As an alternative, I'd suggest a variation of what redwudz said. Save out (Demux) the Japanese audio you want in the original format untouched (MP3, I guess). Then disable both audios, add back in the demuxed one, Direct Stream Copy the video, and Save.

[ministryofmind]

Doh! Celtic druid, that's a good bloody point!

A while back I batch renamed them from avis from ogms because winamp was being stupid about the file extension.

Should I change it back to ogms, and then do the same thing? Will that work? Is there a batch conversion process? I will be doing this for like ... 90 different files. So I'd like it to be not as loopy.

Domo arigato gozaimasu!

Thank you all very much from a terribly Asian girl and her anime.

[Abond]

Should I change it back to ogms, and then do the same thing?

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You should... try :P

[celtic_druid]

Renaming them back to *.ogm is a good idea I would say, since they aren't avi's. As long as your output is ogm, then VDubMod should work fine, complete with subs. A cli based ogm muxer would make more sense for batch processing though or you could use mkvmerge and remux to mkv.