How to convert dual channel avi to DVD?

[yuuyuu]

Hello. I have one avi which has dual audio(english and spanish). When I check it's property it says "audio format:MPEG layer-3". Is it possible to convert to DVD with dual audio using TMPGenc? I tried "audio option" to stereo, dual, but no success (always converts just one language sound).
When I checked TMPGenc help, it says something like "dual channel means 2 languages with 1 on the right channel and the other on the left". But when I play this avi on my computer I hear both languages on both right and left channel. Thanks for any help in advance.

[guns1inger]

If you still want both languages, you need to

1. Demux the audio from the video - virtualdubmod can do this. If it is VBR MP3, save it as an uncompressed wav file.

2. Make a copy of the file. Name one copy moviename_en.wav, then other moviename_sp.wav.

3. Load the english audio file into an audio editor - audacity will do if you don't have one. Copy the english channel over the spanish channel. Save.

4. Repeat step 3, this time loading the spanish audio file and copying the spanish channel over the english channel.

This is where you come unstuck if you don't have TDA 2, because TDA 1.x doesn't support multiple audio tracks. If you have TDA 2, encode your video, then author with both tracks. If you have TDA 1.x, then you need to find a new authoring tool for this project.

[full_moon107]

hi ,

I need help please , I have simillar problem .

I have downloaded a movei in / spanish - english / it is an AVI file
when i play it , it plays in spanish !!!
I do not know how to play it in english !!
I tried several media players softwares hopping some will get me to the menue to choose the language without sucsess .
need to now how to :

play this in english ?
how to convert it to dvd with ability to choose language ?

thanks in advance >

[guns1inger]

Are you sure it has English audio ?

Open it in Windows Media Player. It is one of the simplest media players around, and cannot, natively, handle multiple audio tracks or separate channel audio. If it plays back only in Spanish in media player there is a good chance there is only Spanish audio.

You can also open it in virtualdubmod and look at the streams, and use the process described above to extract them, if they exist. You could also encode with ConvertXtoDVD, which can handle up to two audio streams.

[mats.hogberg]

Load the AVI in VirtualDubMod.
Go to stream list, disable the audio you don't want.
Save out a new AVI with audio and video set to Direct Stream.

The latter is harder, but if you extract both audio streams, encode both to DVD compliant audio (AC3), encode video only to DVD compliant mpg (m2v) then author with some authoring app that supports > 1 audio track it's quite doable. But I doubt you'll find any oneclick AVI to DVD solution that do > 1 audio stream.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

ConvertXtoDVD will do two audio streams. TDA 2 is probably the simplest two channel DVD authoring tool.

[full_moon107]

mats.hogberg

you said :
.....
Load the AVI in VirtualDubMod.
Go to stream list, disable the audio you don't want.
Save out a new AVI with audio and video set to Direct Stream.
......

thanks for advice >

I did exactly what you suggested and it worked .

you have been very helpfull

thanks to gunslinger for his help too >

[SisterJack]

Ok, I've got a similar problem. Got a movie in AVI with two audio tracks, so I tried using VirtualModDub to save the file with only one audio track (the one I wanted). When it came out, there was no sound. What's going on? I tested the conversion with another movie (with only one audio track) and the sound came out fine. And yes, I made sure I had selected one of the tracks. Tested it three times. Still no sound after being saved.

I also tried simply converting from AVI to DVD using AVI2DVD, but apparently the program doesn't recognize the two audio tracks. I haven't actually tried converting it yet (cause it takes such a long time), but the program doesn't show any of the tracks to be selected.

I also tried using ConvertXtoDVD, but apparently it doesn't recognize my file as an A/V file.

Anyone have any idea what's going on?

[guns1inger]

POst a screen shot of the streams list from VDM

[SisterJack]

This is the streams list in the way I intend to save the file. Stream 2 moved up, as the one I intend to keep, and stream 1 moved down and disabled.

I'm guessing the lack of audio after saving has something to do with it being OGM or something? I'm not sure, I don't know much about this stuff.

[guns1inger]

The latest version of ConvertXtoDVD should support ogg audio. Otherwise you need to extract it as wav, and then replace the ogg streams in the avi with the wav file before processing.

[SisterJack]

The latest version of ConvertXtoDVD should support ogg audio. Otherwise you need to extract it as wav, and then replace the ogg streams in the avi with the wav file before processing.

Thanks, I'll try that.