[linux-audio-user] scriptable audio editor to (parallel) combine streams

[Marc-Olivier Barre]

On 12/5/06, Thomas Sattler <tsattler at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi there ...
>
> When watching a DVD one can sometimes select which language to listen
> to. I'm looking for a solution where I can playback a movie with two
> different languages at the *same* time:
>
> Most of my friends understand english quite well so we want to see a
> movie in its original tongue. Just one friend often needs translation
> so I would like to be able to listen to german translation with a
> headset.
>
> As I do not know of a player that can manage two different languages at
> the same time I thought of recording the DVD to harddisk, also record
> english and german audio and then mix both audio channels together.
>
> This could either be mixing each language to mono and combine them to
> a pseudo stereo containing a different language on the left or right
> channel. Or mixing two stereo channels to a pseudo surround sound, one
> language at the front the other at the rear.
>
> As written above I do not need to edit (cut or somehow modify) the
> streams. All I need is to remix them. Could you please give me a hint,
> which tool I can use for that?
>

You could use an audio editor like rezound, snd, audacity to make a 2
stereo track wave file, play it with <some software handling jack and
multiple tracks> patch the english part to your speekers, and the
german part to the output where your head set is connected.
There are also tools that allow you to sync video to audio played by
jack (xjadeo could do the trick).
But all that is maybe a bit too much just to enjoy a movie ;-)
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