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I'm using VLC to transcode an MKV video with multiple audio tracks into an MP4 video. I just want it to encode one audio track. How do I do this? I've tried using --audio-track=2 on the commandline, but it still transcodes *all* the audio tracks!

Anyway, I tried it with dvdsimple and interestingly it does dump out Title 1 of the DVD, but then instead of quitting it seems to restart the dump and add more data to the output video file! Do you have an idea why? Here's the output I get at the command line: jez@jez-MINT-PC ~ $ vlc -vv dvdsimple:/...

But what about just playing the DVD? Any idea why you wouldn't be able to select English audio?

Bump. Come on, someone must be able to help me!

I have an odd problem trying to play back my Star Trek DVDs from VLC. I have tried this in Linux (version 2.1.6 Rincewind) and Windows (version 2.2.4 Weatherwax), with the same result on each. It won't play the English audio track as the default audio track, no matter what I try. This is the termina...

I'm trying to save a title from my DVD to an MP4 file on disk. I can save title 1 OK, but for some reason, title 2 crashes VLC. I go into 'Media | Convert/Save', then Disc, I select DVD and 'no disc menus', then I select my DVD drive (E:), title 2, chapter 0, audio -1, and subtitles -1. I click 'Con...

Under Preferences -> All -> Video, there are settings called "video scaling factor" and "zoom video". My question is, what is the difference between these? For me, "zoom video" never seems to change anything, whereas "video scaling factor" actually controls th...