1 Video 1 Subtitle Multi soundtracks ?

[Decane]

Hey all.

I'm not quite sure if this thread belongs here but i'll give it a shot anyway.

I'm about to rip a forign movie and naturally i want the best possible rip (divx5, xvid or something). The idea is to encode the video in divx. then the audio in mp3.

BUT

Is there anyway i can keep the sound separate from the video like subtitles and vobsub?

So the idea is that i have
1. Divx Video
1. VobSub subtitles
2 or 3. mp3 audio files.
and then mux them together during playback so i can choose the track i want like on a dvd?

Is this even possible with the .avi or mp4 file format? If not what are my alternatives ?

[hakko504]

Use microDVD player. It will support exactly that. The allmighty Doom9 (http://www.doom9.org) has the dl on the full dl page together with a link to the homepage. Nicky Page (http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com) has a guide on how to do dual languages also.

[Decane]

before i do is it software only isn't it?

[hakko504]

Yepp, no hardware in sight here ;)

[DJ Bobo]

I find microdvd quite annoying, so I'll recommend the BSPlayer, where you can simply load any piece of audio while playback.
Just hit Shift+L and you're ready to go.

BTW, why don't you mux the audio into the video?! NanDub allows up to 2 tracks, and some AviMux software (still buggy I think) allows even more tracks.

[Decane]

by software i ment decoding :D

Tell me how this muxing of audio work with nandub (and more importantly how to play it back).

And the other idea is that i keep the video on 1 cd and the audio tracks on another and that way better quality.

BSplayer is screwing up on my computer. It can't play divx's properly atm just comes with black screen and garbage when fullscreening. (only for the divxs i've encoded as yet ?!? (done with gknot))

[manono]

Hi-

BS Player-Go Options-Preferences-Video. Then check "Use Overlay" and just to the right of it, change from Mode 1 to Mode 2, and see if that gives you your video back.

Muxing 2 audio streams in Nandub-you know how to mux 1 audio stream, right? Well the same place where you select the first stream, at the top is "Secondary Stream". It's in there that you'll add your second audio track.

If you don't know at all how to mux audio using Nandub, then the instructions are in the VDub Procedures Guide (http://www.doom9.org/virtualdub_procedures.htm#mp3mux). But don't forget to use Nandub, and not VDub.

[danjx]

In Doom's guides, you will find a section on Audio Guides. Look in there and you will find a guide for dual audio muxing.

[Decane]

i didn't mean the actual muxing of the audio.

I know how to do that in nandub it's very straight forward. The question is: how do i play it back. Will bsplayer / sasami / *shudder* windows media player ask me which stream to play ?

[manono]

Hi-

Oh-so that's what you were asking:) I use BS Player. It starts by playing the Primary Audio Stream. If you want the other one, right click the screen, hit Audio Streams, and check Stream 2 and it switches more or less instantly. Real easy.

[DJ Bobo]

{BSPlayer will play the first stream.
You wanna change to the second stream, right click on the video -> audio streams -> click the second stream, that's it.} -> manono was faster with this :D

If you want BSPlayer to play the second stream directly, very simple, make a link on the desktop with the following command:

bplay -as2