Dual Audio Channels Left & Right Seperation.

[spud1980]

Hi guys,

I've I copied the dat files from a vcd to my hdd and converted them to mpeg format using VCDGear. Is there a better software or way to do it and minimize quality loss?

The problem is there seems to be 2 audio channels on the cd, left in language A and right in language B. How do I remove the unwanted language in one of the channels? After removal of the channel will my audio still be stereo or would it be mono after removal of the unwanted channel? If it became mono could I change it into a stero format?

Regards.

[djidjo]

1. First of all, you don't need to convert .DAT files to MPEG since they are already MPEGs.

2. Open the .DAT in VDub (it should work). Then click on "File / Save WAV". You should get a WAV file with the sound of your movie.

3. Open the WAV file with a sound editing program such as Cool Edit and convert it to Mono with 100% Left or 100% Right depending which channel you want to keep.

4. Save the new WAV then convert it to mp2 audio with TMPGEnc or TooLame.

5. Demultiplex your .DAT (after renaming to .MPG) with the "Simple Demultiplex" from MPEG Tools in TMPGEnc. You should get a .mpv (video file) and a .mp2 (sound file)

6. Remultiplex the .mpv with the correct .mp2 you made with Cool Edit.
You should have a correct VCD MPG file, ready to be burned !

Hope this helps,
Djidjo

[htc10825]

at step 5, use "Demultiplex" instead of "Simple Demultiplex", doubble click on the video stream and save it, then mux the .m1v file and the mp2 file(encoded from the splited wave output of VDub) to a regular VCD file.

Thus the newbie can avoid the mistake to re-use the mp2 file demuxed by "Simple Demultiplex" in TMPG, and save the time in addition.