Audio Channels on Importing DVD Disc

TimTyler wrote on 1/11/2010, 2:35 PM

I need to extract the contents of a DVD I authored some years ago so I can put the clips on YouTube and Vimeo.

Used Import / DVD Disc and Vegas did a great job of importing each chapter into numerically labeled MPG files.

When I upload each MPG to YouTube, the site's conversion process strips the channel 3/4 audio commentary tracks. Vimeo does not unfortunately.

Is there any way for me to strip the commentary audio tracks from the MPG with GUI tools without losing any video quality?

Comments

Rob Franks wrote on 1/11/2010, 3:28 PM

TSmuxer (freedownload)

Use it to demux, delete the channels not needed. This will leave you with a MPV and a MPA file... which i'm not sure will import to Vegas (if you need to). If not then use tsmuxer again to remux to a M2TS which does import to vegas.

TSmuxer does not re-encode. Instead it simply changes containers. It's also extremely fast... takes about 2 minutes or so to demux a dvd (on a quad core)

To demux a dvd; "ADD" vob1 then "JOIN" vob2, "JOIN" vob3.... etc then hit demux.

http://smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html

TimTyler wrote on 1/11/2010, 4:29 PM

Thanks, Rob.

TX Muxer worked great, although it does not sense the DVD chapters and therefore cannot create individual files for each chapter.

I was able to use it to JOIN all the VOB's for the main program and create a single M2TS (a format that Vimeo accepts) but the 5.2GB file size is too large.

I guess I'm looking for an app that will split the M2TS at "chapter" points I can select visually.

UPDATE: Nevermind - Figured out how to do it using the txMuxeR Split feature. Dropped the big M2TS in Vegas to determine the "second" counter at chapter points, then plugged those into txMuxeR. Tedious but worth it.

Rob Franks wrote on 1/11/2010, 4:56 PM

Well, TSmuxer will split files according to time... I'm not sure about chapters though.