Removing excess audio channels from a VOB file

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"mark tognella" <togbabe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Can anybody tell me if there is a simple way to remove excess audio
> channels from a vob file that has been ripped from a dvd? So - for
> example - say you have a VOB file containing 6 different language
> channels and all you want to do is have the channel that represents
> English. Can this be done? Anybody?

If you have the .vob file in a VIDEO_TS folder, just use the "Add
DVD video" button in TMPGEnc DVD Author. For each title/track
you can select an audio tract. (some feel the fact that it only allows
you to select only one audio tract, is a fault ) You can continue to
make your new DVD in TMPGEnc DVD Author or you can
use the .mpg s created (if you checked the save to HDD box) in
any other program that can use DVD compliant MPEG files.

Luck;
Ken

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Thanks for the reply Ken. Does this mean that I would end up with an
‘un-converted' VOB file with only one audio track? What I mean is
that it won't get converted to a different video format by default?

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On 29 Sep 2004 06:15:30 -0700, togbabe@yahoo.co.uk (mark tognella)
wrote:

>Can anybody tell me if there is a simple way to remove excess audio
>channels from a vob file that has been ripped from a dvd? So – for
>example – say you have a VOB file containing 6 different language
>channels and all you want to do is have the channel that represents
>English. Can this be done?

Easily, but do it on the ripping process itself. If you use DVD
Decrypter to rip, you can check "Stream processing", and select the
streams you want to be processed. Or you can use DVDShrink, which
shall also allow you to select which things you want to retain.

Or just open your .vob in mpeg-vcr, and save it -it shall yield you an
..mpg with just the main audio.

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"mark tognella" <togbabe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Can anybody tell me if there is a simple way to remove excess audio
> channels from a vob file that has been ripped from a dvd? So - for
> example - say you have a VOB file containing 6 different language
> channels and all you want to do is have the channel that represents
> English. Can this be done? Anybody?

DVD2One can do this. It is designed to shrink a ripped movie down to the
size to fit on a blank (4.37G), but the desired size is configurable (I'm
pretty sure). Before it starts it shows all audio channels and you can pick
which to keep. If your original size isn't larger then the target size, then
the removal of unwanted audio channels is the only thing that happens.

You can remove the director's commentary by using a cool tool called Avidemux.
It is a freeware.

When you open the .vob file, it imports the video first, then it tells you how to select a main audio channel for the file.

cheers.