VOB multiple audio tracks

[cseasy]

Hi,

I have some VOB files that contain multiple audio tracks (standard audio and directors commentary.) For some reason, on some of the files, the directors commentary is on the primary track.

What tool would be best to use (on a Mac, OS X,) to convert these vobs for iPod/Front Row (H.264 640) which would let me choose to encode the second audio track instead of the first. I've tried iSquint as it seems to do a good job, supports batches (I know it doesn't do the H.264 640 yet but that's got to be coming soon, right?) but I can't see an option to select which audio track to use (I could easily be missing something though,) and it encodes only the primary track. I'm not against buying it's bigger brother VisualHub if it does the job but I dont want to pay for it if the extra features above and beyond iSquint are of no use to me (pretty much just encoding video for iPod/Front Row.)

FFMPEGX also looks cool but is a little more complicated - if it can do what I need, I don't know where to look (I did find an 'audio track (or 'channel', not in front of my Mac and don't remember exactly)' option on the 'audio' tab but it seems to have options 0 - 15.) When opening the vob in VLC there is only 2 tracks so I'm not sure if I should be messing with this option.

As this is a specific topic, this might not be the place, but as a related side note, do either of these (or other suggestions) yeild better video quality/speed results over each other assuming the same settings are applied to both, or are they basically the same back end with a different GUI?

Thanks in advance,
C.

[Frobozz]

Give Hawkeye a test. I think it has the ability to select the audio track. Popcorn 2 also has this ability but I don't know if it works with VOBs unless they are in an authored VIDEO_TS folder.

[Case]

FFMPEGX also looks cool but is a little more complicated - if it can do what I need, I don't know where to look (I did find an 'audio track (or 'channel', not in front of my Mac and don't remember exactly)' option on the 'audio' tab but it seems to have options 0 - 15.) When opening the vob in VLC there is only 2 tracks so I'm not sure if I should be messing with this option.

The audio tracks 0-15 are the 16 possible tracks, without identification. You may select 'track 0' for the first track, 'track 1' for the second, et cetera. You may try the Preview button in the lower-right of the Filters tab to confirm if you selected the track that you really wanted.