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?

"mark tognella" <togbabe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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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

togbabe@yahoo.co.uk (mark tognella) wrote in message news:<3e1ebef8.0409290515.624917b@posting.google.c om>...
DVDShrink and DVDecrypter will both do this. You may have to start
with the original DVD though. I don't know if they will work with an
individual VOB file (I assume you do not have the *.ts and *.ifo
files)

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?

"mark tognella" <togbabe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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You would end up with a folder containing whatever MPEG
video data and whatever audio data you selected from your
original .vob(s). It will be in the form of sequentially numbered
DVD compliant .mpg files, in the Dir. you designated or the
default Dir. They will have only the one audio stream and one
video stream, you selected, combined/muxed as a "system
stream". This can be AC3 5.1 channel audio data, or whatever.
If you were to transcode the audio for any reason it would then
only be 2 channel stereo. If you leave it alone it will be whatever
it started as.

You would also still have your original .vob file(s) unchanged
exactly as they were, in their VIDEO_TS folder.

Luck;
Ken

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

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.

"mark tognella" <togbabe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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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.

This looked really good until I get the message "The logical block
number does not match with the actual position in the file. Make sure
you copy all files from the DVD to HD in file mode"