Extracting 5.1 audio into basic Stereo

[efiste2]

I have a DVD "dual disc" of Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet which contains Videos and a 5.1 audio version of the album. Some of the audio tracks have extra content so id like to extract them as a WAV file.
Can anyone offer advice on how to extract the audio so that all the 5.1 channels merge into a basic stereo 2 channel mix thats playable on my iPod. Thanks in advance

[Bernix]

Hi,
you can get audio from main movie opening the first Vob (of movie) and let avidemux append rest automatically. If it has multiple tracks, you can select which one to save. From top menu where is audio, select track, where is copy, choose PCM and where is filter, choose remix settings you want. Configure what you need. Then from same top AUDIO menu choose save track. Add extension wav to file. Check result if is it correct. But wav file will be huge.

Bernix

[pandy]

Plain downmixing is quite simple - i use something like bellow:

@ffmpeg -y -i "%1" -vn -sn -c:a aac -b:a 192k -af "pan=stereo|FL < FL+1.414FC+0.5BL+0.5SL+0.25LFE+0.125BR|FR < FR+1.414FC+0.5BR+0.5SR+0.25LFE+0.125BL" -movflags faststart -f mp4 "%~n1.mp4"

However you may try something better especially for headphone listening - with help of HRTF spatial perception can be significantly improved.
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/385585-Downmixing-6-channel-AAC-to-2-channel#post2500174

[hello_hello]

You can use DVDShink's re-author function. Drag titles from the right pane to the left, and you can edit titles down to chapters or frames if need be. Then disable compression and use the Backup function.You'll have individual vobs according to how you re-authored the DVD. (You can extract the audio with DGIndex).

Another option might be MakeMKV. When the DVD has been extracted as MKV(s) you can use gMKVExtractGUI to extract the audio.

Once you have the audio you can downmix and convert with several GUIs. MeGUI's audio encoder will do it, although you need to download the required files for QAAC yourself if you want to use it for encoding, otherwise you can just download NeroAAC.

If there is a hell, I'd always assumed the PA system in hell would be playing Bon Jovi on a continuous loop for all eternity, but each to their own.