Removing voice-over/dubbing?

[ssalim]

Hi,

I don't know what it's called... you know english movies with spanish audio... what is it called? Hehe.

Anyway, how do you remove that from a media file (mpeg)?
Is it even possible?

[foxyshadis]

Are you asking for video with no audio? Any mpeg muxer can do that, try Elecard's basic X-muxer. DGIndex can give you a bare m1v file, similar but that's not so widely compatible as an mpeg.

If you want the audio stream edited to remove voices while keeping sound efects, no can do, hombre. It takes specialized software and almost never gives good results, unlike music vocal removal. (And even that's a black art.)

[Mug Funky]

though you might be lucky if it's a 5.1 mix - voice is almost always centre-only in the mix.

and stereo might work okay if you do a mid/side thing. i believe there's a vocal remove filter in virtualdub.

but whenever there's reverb or special effects (or just someone talking offscreen), the spanish will come back.

an M&E track would be handy :)