DonDaMon
22nd February 2005, 08:13
Heres the deal. I backed up some DVD's of a show a while back, putting the episodes on multiple CD-ROMS. At the time I figured I might as well encode the commentary Audio track and the normal one, in case I wanted it later. My kids use my DVD's when they get to them, as frisbees, and seemingly a material to test sandpaper on. They got to them in the living room, but I have my backup CD's (thank you Doom 9).
Now I am trying to consolidate my back-up collections onto DVD's. This is fine, but the episodes constituting the complete show, only three seasons, are slightly too large to fit on a DVD-R. I have listened to the commentary, nothing special. I want to lose them to get the one DVD-R. They are .avi files, with two audio tracks. I have tried the whole .rar and .zip approach but that sucks to access the files again, and it doesn't compress very much a compressed file. I have tried removing both audio tracks and adding one back, but the audio/video is asynchronous, and I was wondering if anyone knows a way, without redubbing, to simply save only one of the audio tracks. When I redub it gets complicated, very complicated, and I can't imagine why it wouldn't be possible to remove a track without having to redub. I've tried using VirtualDub, but for some reason it gives me the commentary track no matter how I select the two audio ones (shaded, audio symbol selected, etc.). Can anyone help me?
Now I am trying to consolidate my back-up collections onto DVD's. This is fine, but the episodes constituting the complete show, only three seasons, are slightly too large to fit on a DVD-R. I have listened to the commentary, nothing special. I want to lose them to get the one DVD-R. They are .avi files, with two audio tracks. I have tried the whole .rar and .zip approach but that sucks to access the files again, and it doesn't compress very much a compressed file. I have tried removing both audio tracks and adding one back, but the audio/video is asynchronous, and I was wondering if anyone knows a way, without redubbing, to simply save only one of the audio tracks. When I redub it gets complicated, very complicated, and I can't imagine why it wouldn't be possible to remove a track without having to redub. I've tried using VirtualDub, but for some reason it gives me the commentary track no matter how I select the two audio ones (shaded, audio symbol selected, etc.). Can anyone help me?