Transcoding from GUI with choice of audio/subs

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Transcoding from GUI with choice of audio/subs

Postby codeman38 » 30 Nov 2005 22:29

The Advanced Output options in VLC are quite nice, but I've been wondering about one thing.

What I'd like to be able to do is to encode a .VOB ripped from DVD to another format, but with an alternate audio track from the default and with subtitles overlaid on the video. I know there are ways to do this from the command line, but to be frank, I've looked at all the documentation and the syntax for the transcoding options still seems rather arcane.

Is there any way to choose audio and subtitle tracks from a multi-track file when transcoding via the GUI?

Edited to add: I'm on 0.8.4 for Mac, but this seems to be an issue in all versions of the GUI that I've seen.

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Postby codeman38 » 30 Nov 2005 22:46

Well, I found one way of doing it by changing some settings in the global preferences... not exactly the most elegant solution, but it appears to work, based on the info I'd read about the command line options:

Input codecs - General: set 'Audio Track' and 'Subtitles Track' to the proper stream ID
Stream output - Sout stream - Transcode: set 'Destination subtitles codec' to 'soverlay'

And it works. I now have subtitles and the original Japanese soundtrack on my mp4'd anime. Whee. :)


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