2 audio tracks in the same vob - need to get the second track!!!!

bobbygr100@hotmail.com

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Aug 10, 2011 02:23

I have a movie I'm trying to build from 4 VOB files. 3 of the 4 VOB files have audio that syncs with the video on the screen.

The second of the 4, though has 2 audio tracks. For some ridiculous reason the movie decided to use audio track 2 in the VOB file. Track 1 sounds like some kind of commentary.

How do I tell Power Director 9 to use the SECOND audio track in this VOB file, rather than the first (which is the default for PD9).

I've worked with this and worked with it and I cannot find anyway to do it. I want to put all VOB files in a timeline as a movie, but the second VOB file screws the whole thing up, because it's default track 1 is commentary rather than the audio that lines up with the video in the VOB. All other VOBS are fine, track 1 is used for audio that lines up with video.

Please tell me step by step as easy as possible how to get this vob to play track 2 for it's audio in the timeline, rather than the default track 1.

I can see the VOB file (using VLC) has the two tracks and even when clicking on it outside of PDR 9 the default commentary track 1 plays, I have to change it manually to track 2 in VLC then it plays fine, but once the VOB is closed, it once again resorts to opening track1 by default.

Where do I go and how do I get VLC to play this piece in the timeline, and ONLY this piece to track 2?

This is blowing my mind.....

Thank you,

Bob

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Aug 10, 2011 09:18

There is a tool that can strip the video and audio streams into its multiple parts.

http://howto-pages.org/ffmpeg/#strip

I am reasonably sure that Powerdirector does not have the ability to chose which audio track to use.

Maybe you can use VLC to extract the second audio.
You could use Audacity to capture/record the audio that is playing, if your computer is configured to record the audio from the Stereo mixer.

Edit:
How to enable stereo mixer in Windows 7
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/39532/how-to-enable-stereo-mix-in-windows-7-to-record-audio/

You may need to update your audio driver for the above to work.

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Bubba in TX

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Aug 10, 2011 11:20

Format Factory (free) will do the same..... then use Audacity to edit the audio track like Carl suggests... I extract audio from movie clips all the time.... easy and simple... (outside of PD of course, I don't like or use wave editor either) __________________________________________
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FredB

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Aug 10, 2011 22:34

This may be an issue of Copy Protection (if you are speaking of the same Fuel movie you mentioned in another post) and may not work within PD9.

James Dotson

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Aug 11, 2011 02:33

I could be wrong, but I believe this is a side effect of copy protection. __________________________________
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