AVI files with 2 audio channels

[danjull]

Hello. I have some avi files that has more than one audio channel, i.e one with commentary and one with the original audio for the clip. I tried enconding it with TMPGenc, but only got the commentary track. What are my options to get the two seperate tracks and burn it to a DVD?

I also tried ConvertXtoDVD, but I kept getting encoding errors.

[redwudz]

If it's a AVI type file, one way would be to open it in VirtualDub Mod and disable the unwanted audio channel, then save the modified version with direct stream processing for video and audio to a new file. That new file should encode properly if there are no other problems.

Usually TMPGEnc encoder gives you a choice of audio channels, though.

And welcome to our forums.

[45tripp]

I also tried ConvertXtoDVD, but I kept getting encoding errors.

What kind of errors?
Convertx is the easiest way to do what you want.
if you're more specific, someone will probably offer a hint or two.

If you want both audio tracks otherwise,
you need to encode at least the one audio stream separately.
Might as well extract both streams to uncompressed audio with vdubmod.
encode to ac3 with encwav2ac3.
encode video only with tmpg.
import video and audios into authoring app.

Usually TMPGEnc encoder gives you a choice of audio channels, though.

Really?
how?

[redwudz]

Usually TMPGEnc encoder gives you a choice of audio channels, though.

Oops, I was thinking ConvertX, not TMPGEnc. With TMPGEnc you can select the audio files separately for input, not the channels.

[danjull]

I also tried ConvertXtoDVD, but I kept getting encoding errors.

What kind of errors?
Convertx is the easiest way to do what you want.
if you're more specific, someone will probably offer a hint or two.

Well first I get all these orange lines when it attempts to start the conversion saying "Unknown input Stream#3 - Will be discarded" and "Stream #1 has produced NO data (empty). Result may miss some stream(s)." and then it stops with a red line that says "Exception raised in conversion Thread with message "List index out of bounds (-1)"".

All these files plays fine on the computer though. No errors or anything.

[45tripp]

For list index out of bounds, somewhere it's suggested removing convertx and it's registry entries, then re-installing.

[j4gg3rr]

Save each track as a wav file in VDub Using compression = PCM <uncompressed> selected, save the wav's.
Get ffmpeggui and convert the wav's to AC3 @ 192 kb/s.

Encode your video with TMPGEnc using elementary video only.

Combine the encoded video and both AC3 audio tracks using TMPGEnc Tools Miltiplex, MPEG2 VBR Program Stream selected.

Or import the 3 streams(1 video + 2 audio) seperately into your DVD authoring app.

I think its better to Mutilplex with TMPGEnc Tools thou, so audio sync can be checked before burning a coaster.

EDIT:
Oh BTW, forget ConvertXtoDVD.
You have a good encoder in TMPGEnc!

[45tripp]

Oh BTW, forget ConvertXtoDVD.
You have a good encoder in TMPGEnc!

Sure.
But convertx should work. Why not try and get it in working order?