Dual Audio while burning DVD !

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  1. eltonlaw

    eltonlaw Member

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    Hi all,

    I have an urgent query that I wish you can help me to resolve.

    I have a MPEG file which its audio channel contains two languages.
    Left hand side is Cantonese.Right hand side is Mandarin.

    Whenever I burned a DVD, Audio sound will mix two channels into one, which Cantonese and Mandarin are speaking at the same time.

    I am using Ulead Video Studio 9.0 and have tried MPEG Stereo mode, LPCM Dual Channel/Stereo and Dolby 2O/LR modes.
    All are failed and wasted a lot of DVD discs.

    Could you advise the correct setting to burn a DVD for Dual Audio channels please ?
    I mean I can use "L/R" or "Audio mode" in normal DVD player to switch audio channels.

    When I right clicked the Media file, it shows MPEG AUDIO 2 layers.
    Even I used the Media clip to generate the sound file. Wave file itself contains Left-hand side of Cantonese and Right-hand side of Mandarin.

    I used PAL rather than NTSC to burn the DVD. Does this matter please ?

    Actually, Any DVD software can accomodate more than dual Audio channels please ?

    Thanks for help and advice,

    Regards,

    Elton Law
     
    eltonlaw, Jun 26, 2006
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  2. agentgman

    agentgman Regular member

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    did you get it off of a dvd? rip it with dvd shrink. if not, use limewire to get it again.
     
    agentgman, Jul 7, 2006
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  3. wilkes

    wilkes Regular member

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    Your problem is in the way you are encoding the Audio.
    What you must do is separae the Left & Right channels into 2 individual streams, as no player is capable of dealing with L & R sections being in different languages.
    Use whatever Audio editor you have - Audacity is a good freeware one, or else you may have access to something a bit more comprehensive that - if you are lucky - will also have a built-in Dolby Digital encoder.
    (Vegas & Nuendo come to mind here)

    After you have extracted these to separate files, you'll need to do either
    A - Create a stereo (Or Dual Mono) version for each stream. Simply import your mono file, and export it out again as a 16/48 PCM file. Repeat for each version.
    B - Launch your Dolby Digital encoder and set it to 1/0 mode for mono, and encode from there.

    Hope this helps.

    Oh - FWIW, DVD-RW discs save a LOT of coasters!!
     
    wilkes, Jul 10, 2006
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    cougar_ii Regular member

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    Hi there,

    If those 2 mpg files has 2 different audio tracks, VSO ConvertXtoDVD will convert those MPG files to DVD, keeping 2 different audio tracks.

    If it's 1 audio track (From what I can see), left one language, and right an other language, well this is the 1st time I ever hear of this :)
     
    cougar_ii, Jul 13, 2006
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  5. wilkes

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    If it's one audio track, simply extract the audio from the mpeg file.
    Import it into your Audio editor.
    Split to 2 mono files.
    Export each one out as either mono, or dual mono (which would give 2 tracks that look like stereo, but are in fact mono)
     
    wilkes, Jul 13, 2006
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