Christian Link
Guest
|
 Posted:
Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject:
Re: Is it possible to add two sound tracks to one divx movie |
|
|
Hi, Larc, "Free",
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:18:01 GMT, Larc <larc-news@jupiterlink.net>
wrote:
| Quote: | | I'm using Dr. Divx to convert a DVD to Divx. The DVD has two sound
| track. But Dr. Divx allows me to select one only. Can I get around and
| select both or maybe try some other Divx tool?
Just think about it. If you could have two sound tracks in a DivX,
how would you select which one to play with the movie?
|
Why, it's just a matter of selecting the wanted audio stream. I admit
I'm not up to date as far as players are concerned (having stuck to
BSPlayer, MPlayer and MDVDPlayer for ages), but the aforementioned
players can do it (not sure about the last one - it would be able to
switch to an _external_ WAV as an alternative, though, that I know for
sure). Besides, if you have Morgan Stream Switcher (not sure about the
name, again) installed, you can switch the audio streams from whatever
player application you want, as long as you can reach the properties
page (i. e. not from within the more recent versions of Media Player,
if I'm not mistaken).
However, I wouldn't recommend using several audio streams in a DivX
AVI, either. First, because unless you're doing DivX-on-DVD projects,
space is precious, and a second audio track in decent quality would
take up bandwidth that's better spent on the video, and second,
because some external DivX players may choke on it, or at least won't
let you choose which stream to play, rendering the whole thing
downright worthless.
What you may do, however, is mixing the one (preferrably the original)
track to the left track and the other (localized, commentary,
whatever) to the right, and encode as dual channel. Naturally, this
would only give you mono for each, which in most cases isn't really
satisfactory. But if it's an old movie that's mono anyway, this trick
does it without sacrificing compatibility or space.
Mind you, I have to admit that I never tried the latter with AVIs;
only with MPEG-1 files for (X)VCDs. In that case, however, both
Windows and my external player recognized the audio track as being
dual channel, and only played _one_ channel (on both speakers) unless
I switched to the other one (either via the properties or the remote).
Don't flame me ;-) - I know this last suggestion is not really usable
for the majority of cases, but still, for some it should produce
satisfactory results.
If the original poster still insists on having several "real" tracks
in one and the same AVI, VirtualDubMod should be able to do it. If you
don't like that, you may also use AVIMux, I think. I've never worked
with Dr. DivX (I'm male and under 50, so ;-))) ...), but I guess you
can still provide it with a bitrate to use for the encode. Just
subtract the bitrate for the second audio track from that bitrate, and
later, once Dr. DivX has finished, add the additional data in any of
the aforementioned ways. But again, I wouldn't suggest doing so unless
you're going for a data DVD containing the final DivX (keep in mind,
though, that even then many players would bail out if your file gets
bigger than 2 GB, so space *still* is an issue here). Space is
precious, and if this wouldn't matter to us, we probably wouldn't use
DivX, but MPEG-2, wouldn't we?
Greetings,
Chris. |
|
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in