Capture 2nd Audio Track from DVD

lespurgeon · Post by **lespurgeon** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:03 am

I have a DVD folder on my computer, and when I import it it shows that there are 2 seperate stereo audio tracks; however, itdoes not allow me to select one. When imported, only the first track is available. Is there any means to select and captuer the second rather than first track?

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:34 am

Hi

I would suspect that you only have the one audio track with sound the second track being empty.
Usually the original video prior to capture being mono.

When you import DVD folders I assume you mean TS Video folder. The process does not re-code the video but copies the data to Video Studio working folder.
Right click a clip in the timeline and view the audio attributes, do they show as stereo or mono?

Some versions of video studio allow you to import the actual *.Vob files to the timeline.
Otherwise you can rename the ****.Vob¡¦s to * ***.Mpg then import to the timeline. (works most of the time) but you will see the same files. (make a copy first)

Ok
As a fix.
With the video in the timeline you can copy one audio track to another, this duplicates the tracks giving you a stereo effect. Both tracks will play the same content.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:26 pm

Trevor, I read the OP in an entirely different fashion -- namely that the DVD in question is like a multilingual movie. In this case, main audio and a subsidiary (different language? different background audio) audio track. It is certainly a situation I have met before -- where I have been stuck with an audio background I don't want, and wanting to extract the other audio.

That being said, I don't know what the answer is, though I would love to know.

In other words, it is not a matter of extracting a particular channel, but an entirely different set of channels...

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:49 pm

Cheers Ken

Having read it again I see what you mean.
We will have to wait for the OP to reply

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:08 pm

You might look for a "DVD audio ripper".

lespurgeon · Post by **lespurgeon** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:06 am

Ken,
you read right. I'm trying to pull out Spanish rather than English track. Looks like I'll have to make the extract outside of VS. OK, back to DVDFab for me to pre-process...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:02 pm

Let me know how it goes. FYI, in the case I referred to above, I used Video ReDo, but still only managed to extract a Croatian (of all things) sound track and not the English!!!!