VCD Audio question

[DrSpike]

My girlfriend has some VCDs with 2 audio streams, one in Chinese, and one in Japanese. Is there a way to turn one off? I use powerdvd and there are some audio options, but none that turned off an audio stream.

On a related note, I recently made a legal backup of a film I want to see, but it also has 2 audio streams. One is some kind of commentary. It's an .avi file. Again, is there any player that will allow selection of the audio stream you want?

[Buck Birdseed]

Usually with two audio streams (Karaoke VCDs, etc.) they pan one hard left, the other hard right. Have you tried moving the balance all the way to the side?

[DrSpike]

That's what I think the software tries, but it didn't seem to work. We had 2 streams coming from one speaker.

[Mercator]

Have you tried the VLC media player?

Or I think VirtualDub or otherwise VirtualDubMod could get rid of the extra audio track, but that would mean putting it all on your HD and possibly burning it on CD again.

[DrSpike]

Hmm, problem two is solved by using VLC, strangely.

Problem 1 remains, but perhaps might go away if I could figure out how to open VCDs in VLC.

[Mercator]

I don't know (I don't actually use VLC myself)... Like this?
http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-how...html#id2468694 (see "Play a CD/DVD/VCD")

Edit: oh wait... you're a subscriber, so the anchor in the link will work for you.

[alva]

VLC is a pretty good program btw, if can't find the right codec, open it with VLC and enjoy.

[DrSpike]

Thanks Mercator, it is sorted now.

[Mercator]

Excellent!