Audio Tracks: How Do You Know What They Are?

[TomBrooklyn]

How can one tell what the English audio tracks are so one can decide if they want to keep or remove them? For instance, one might want to keep the director's commentary.

[ricardo.santos]

you can listen to them

[Video Dude]

If you play the dvd in a software player like WinDVD, you can switch between the different audio tracks while it is playing. Then take note the contents of Audio 1, Audio 2, etc...


IfoEdit also has a useful dvd player built in. With the dvd playing you can switch between audio and subtitle tracks.

[TomBrooklyn]

Hi,
Eh, I have the DVD ripped in file mode and I don't have the disk with me at the moment.

I suppose that would preclude playing it in a regular software player, wouldn't it? I don't have WinDVD but I have a program called VLC media player that is supposed to play DVDs, but it's not working. However, for some reason, VLC cannot will not even recognize a DVD Disk Drive with a DVD in it. Thats weird. I thought I had that working before.

I got Windows Media player and I got that to play a DVD disk but for some reason it has no sound whatsoever. This is getting weird. Even if I could get it to play in WMP though, I don't think there is a way to select different kinds of audio.

Will IfoEdit play ripped files? I'm trying it now and can't get it to play. I may not be doing it right though. I don't know how to use IfoEdit very well. I'm trying the Preview and DVD Play buttons and they're not working.

By the way, I can play the files in DVD Shrink. Shrink doesn't seem to distinguish the audio on preview though. I can uncheck all audio streams and it still plays audio. wasn't sure

[blutach]

Any software player will play ripped files. Perhaps Media Player Classic is easiest to manipulate but VLC is an excellent player, too. Certainly, DVD Shrink can distinguish between them by right clicking in the preview window.

Regards

[iNFO-DVD]

You could run pgc.NET on your ripped folder, you would then get audio track information for each PGC you select.

[TomBrooklyn]

Any software player will play ripped files. Perhaps Media Player Classic is easiest to manipulate but VLC is an excellent player, too. Certainly, DVD Shrink can distinguish between them by right clicking in the preview window. Regards
Hi blutach,
I've heard good things about Media Player Classic. VLC was giving me some problems. Probably just that I didn't figure out how to use it properly. I removed it and downloaded Media Player Classic.

I forgot I could get the different Audio Tracks in Shrink by right clicking on the Preview Window. Thanks for reminding me.
Cheers,
Tom

[TomBrooklyn]

You could run pgc.NET on your ripped folder, you would then get audio track information for each PGC you select.Hi iNFO,
I'm not familiar with pgc.net. I have PgcEdit though. Is that the same thing? Anyway, I haven't figured out how to use PgcEdit yet. At the moment I forget what its used for. :rolleyes:

[mad-eddy]

@TomBrooklyn
Some reference points:
1. One finds directors comments etc. mostly only on newer dvds. these one finds then in the higher track numbers and is mostly in 2 channel tone. e.g..
0= English- Normal Movie Sound 6ch AC3
1=French - Normal Movie Sound 6ch AC3
2=German- Normal Movie Sound 6ch AC3
4= English- Normal Movie Sound 2ch AC3
5= English- Directors Comments 2ch AC3
An example!!

2. Use the trace mode of pgcedit! (that is explained in the pgcedit documentation on the homepages of r0lZ)
Would activate then aimed in the audio-menu of the dvd the audio tracks to see around in the watch registers window which trace what is. (sprm 1 = Audio)

All clarity eliminates? :D
Much success!
Cu

[TomBrooklyn]

Hi eddy,
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll take another look at pgcedit and see if I can figure it out. It usually happens that it takes me a few tries with the average DVD Utility before I figure it out enough to get it working.

As far as sound reproduction, I use stereo now but I expect to have a surround sound setup in the future. I read somewhere although I can't remember where, that the AC2 stereo will sound better in a stereo setup than the DTS or AC multichannel audio will. So usually I want to keep 2ch stereo and one of the multichannel soundtracks. I can't remember what the difference is between DTS and
ACE multitrack is. Usually, I've been keeping the ACE as it is usually smaller in size and I think the DTS requires a special player/decoder.

[iradic]

why not try "MediaInfo" ...
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Support/Formats

[TomBrooklyn]

Thanks, iradic. I'll get that.

[hf]

Personally, I like using DVDShrink. You can very quickly look at every piece
of video to decide what you want to keep and it also lets you switch audio
tracks (right click on the video to switch). Also nice that the slider lets you
quickly move around a piece of video. (Useful to see if there is several
minutes of useless credits at the end of an extra that you want to keep)
It is also great for deciding what menu items to still, blank, or keep.