How to select english audio stream in a video

emjaysea wrote on 2/21/2016, 7:53 AM

I have an MP4 video that contains two audio streams, one English, one Japanese. When I play the video in VLC, it plays in English, but when I import it into Vegas for editing, I only get the Japanese. How do I switch to the English language for the video so that my final product is in English?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/21/2016, 7:56 AM

How do you select the English audio stream when you're playing the video in, say, VLC Media Player?

emjaysea wrote on 2/21/2016, 8:01 AM

I don't, it just plays it. Having done a little research, you can set the default language for audio in VLC, mine is set to default to English.

Jillian wrote on 2/21/2016, 9:25 AM

Try this:

Click on the audio stream to select it. Now Right Click the audio and select "Take."

With luck it will show "Take One" Japanese and "Take Two" English. Select "Take Two" and the English track should play.

Hope this helps.

john_dennis wrote on 2/21/2016, 9:55 AM

You can use a program such as tsMuxer to re-multiplex the streams minus the one you don't need. This is a very quick and lossless operation. You can also use the program to assemble multiple audio streams into files for playing. Though I don't do multiple languages, I frequently render .ac3 and .wav audio versions of audio tracks.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/21/2016, 12:58 PM

Or you can try this:
Right click on the video on the t/l, select 'Properties...', select the 'Media' tab and look for 'Stream:'. Pull down to see if there are two audio streams and if so, select the English one.
Tom

emjaysea wrote on 2/23/2016, 4:22 PM

Unfortunately there was only one take to choose from, but I did use Virtual Dub to extract the correct stream, imported it into Vegas, and away I went. Thanks everybody.

(I found this helpful https://www.reddit.com/r/letsplay/comments/3l6xwe/how_to_extract_audio_from_obs_multi_mp4_files/)

JackW wrote on 2/23/2016, 4:30 PM

Did you try the solution proposed above by Tom? It would be interesting to know whether that would work.

Jack