dvd to divx....what about the audio??

[hummus19]

im sure im driving you all crazy, but i REALLY do appreciate all the help.

i want to make a divx5.1 backup of crouching tiger. ive ripped the dvd using robot4rip with dvd decrypter. my question is with the audio. there are 5 tracks. 1 chinese, 1 french, and 3 english and of those 3: 2 are 2channel and one is 6. i want the final avi to have just the english language WITHOUT the commentary from the director/producer. im kinda lost in which way to go....if im missing something, please let me know! thanks again!

hummus19

p.s. wish there was someway of repaying you all for all the help!

[killingspree]

hi,
i'd say go for the 6 channel audio track as the 2 channel audio tracks are the commentary tracks most of the time (no need for sourround sound :))

hth
steVe

[KpeX]

You can also get an idea of which audio track is which by looking at DVD Decrypter's stream information.txt or playing it back in your software DVD player and switching between tracks.

[ammck55]

Originally posted by hummus19
wish there was someway of repaying you all for all the help! There is! :) Lurk, learn, and soon you'll be helping others, this process is the very cornerstone of our community. It won't be long until you open up a thread and say, "Wow, I actually know the answer to this one!" We'll look forward to this along with you.

ammck55

[hummus19]

ok, ive gone through now with robot4rip(dvd decrypter) and let it do its thing trying all three english audio tracks seperately. everytime is the same thing, just as if i had turned on the commentary. i thought maybe ALL tracks were being pulled from the dvd and during the audio encoding preocess the correct one would be segmented, but if that were true, why cant i hear the chinese and french tracks in the vob before the audio is encoded?

hummus19

[manono]

Hi-

What are you doing? Just playing the vob files? If so, forget it; that tells you nothing about what's really in there. In addition, any audio files you may have stripped out when using Stream Processing in DVDDecrypter are no longer in there. So, why don't you play the AC3 files that you took out with DVDDecrypter? Also, of the 3 English tracks, 2 of them (0x81 and 0x82-DD 2.0 and DD 5.1) are the English movie soundtrack, and the 3rd (0x84-DD 2.0) is the commmentary track.

I'm having a little trouble understanding your post. Did you say that you tried 3 times to get the movie soundtrack and just got the commentary? If so, the movie audio is still on the vobs, and you can get it with DVD2AVI (Audio-Track Number-Track 1, and Output Method-Demux All Tracks in DVD2AVI 1.77.3). But obviously you Demuxed the wrong track 3 different times. In DVDDecrypter you should go to the Streams Processing Tab, check the "Enable Stream Processing" box, highlight the one you want (0x81 or 0x82) and tick "Demux". And as KpeX said, the stream information file that DVDDecrypter provides you will say what's in there (although in this case it doesn't say which is the commentary track, as it often does). Or you can check the DVD box or Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXR4/103-2731890-5987053?v=glance&s=dvd&vi=tech-info).

You didn't ask for this, but the dubbed English audio is really terrible on that movie. I highly recommend getting the original Mandarin audio and making the subs.

[hummus19]

ok, ill try that. and btw, if you REALLY want to have fun, watch it with the english dub and subtitles and try NOT to go crazy. its kinda like reading a book, watching the adapted movie, then reading the book BASED on the movie. :)