custom mapping audio channels from different tracks

[Driber]

hi there, I'm having a DVD movie with 2 audio tracks. One track is Dutch 2ch (stereo) and another is English 2ch (stereo). I'm having a 5.1 surround soundcard in my pc. Is it possible to play both audio tracks at the same time, where the Dutch 2ch track would be outputted to the front left+right speakers and the English 2ch track would be outputted to the rear left+right speakers? What I want to do is plug 2 headphones in the sound card, one headphone into the FRONT OUT so that I can listen to the Dutch audio track and another headphone into the REAR OUT so that another person can listen to the English audio track at the same time.

[poisondeathray]

You cannot play 2 audio tracks at the same time

You can do a custom mix in audio software e.g. audacity or wavewizard to do the channel mappings

You could decompress to mono wavs channels, and mix & match the channels.

I'm not too familiar with 4ch audio (I've think I've seen it on some foreign DVD's) , but you could use blank audio channel (silence) to fill in the other channels for 5.1 audio mix if 4ch audio doesn't work

[Driber]

I know I could do it that way, but that's really a lot of hassle every time I would want to do this with a DVD with multiple languages.

I'd have to demux, mix the channels, encode a new ac3 and author a new DVD again (which is even harder and expensive if it is a DVD9)

I would like to know if there is some media player or maybe some filters or plugins that could do this on-the-fly. Thanks for your reply though.

Anyone knows?

[Driber]

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[Driber]

anyone knows?