I have an urgent query that I wish you can help me to resolve.
I have a MPEG file which its audio channel contains two languages.
Left hand side is Cantonese.Right hand side is Mandarin.
Whenever I burned a DVD, Audio sound will mix two channels into one, which Cantonese and Mandarin are speaking at the same time.
I am using Ulead Video Studio 9.0 and have tried MPEG Stereo mode, LPCM Dual Channel/Stereo and Dolby 2O/LR modes.
All are failed and wasted a lot of DVD discs.
Could you advise the correct setting to burn a DVD for Dual Audio channels please ?
I mean I can use "L/R" or "Audio mode" in normal DVD player to switch audio channels.
When I right clicked the Media file, it shows MPEG AUDIO 2 layers.
Even I used the Media clip to generate the sound file. Wave file itself contains Left-hand side of Cantonese and Right-hand side of Mandarin.
I used PAL rather than NTSC to burn the DVD. Does this matter please ?
Actually, Any DVD software can accomodate more than dual Audio channels please ?
Your problem is in the way you are encoding the Audio.
What you must do is separae the Left & Right channels into 2 individual streams, as no player is capable of dealing with L & R sections being in different languages.
Use whatever Audio editor you have - Audacity is a good freeware one, or else you may have access to something a bit more comprehensive that - if you are lucky - will also have a built-in Dolby Digital encoder.
(Vegas & Nuendo come to mind here)
After you have extracted these to separate files, you'll need to do either
A - Create a stereo (Or Dual Mono) version for each stream. Simply import your mono file, and export it out again as a 16/48 PCM file. Repeat for each version.
B - Launch your Dolby Digital encoder and set it to 1/0 mode for mono, and encode from there.
If it's one audio track, simply extract the audio from the mpeg file.
Import it into your Audio editor.
Split to 2 mono files.
Export each one out as either mono, or dual mono (which would give 2 tracks that look like stereo, but are in fact mono)
