How do you take a certain audio language out of an MKV. movie?

It's very simple with a program called MKVmerge GUI which is a part of MKVtoolnix. I just did exactly that to remove an English track from a Japanese/English dual-audio anime series where VMC would default to the English track (ignoring all splitter priority values, etc.).

You can download the program here: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/.

EDIT: I just realized that while I answered what program can do it, I didn't really answer how to do it. Basically it amounts to opening the video file in MKVmerge GUI, unchecking the language stream that you don't want to keep, leaving only what you want to keep checked, and clicking the "start muxing" button. It really couldn't be easier. Good luck!

Sorry about that Vancomycin. I had forgotten how confusing that download page was for me the first time as well. I generally don't like to link directly to executables on the Internet but hehe has you covered with a link right to the Windows installer.

For the record though, from the downloads page you would want to scroll all the way to the bottom and it will say "Windows" in big letters. Just beneath that it says: Thanks to Cygwin and MinGW there are binaries for Windows available. The current version v2.9.0 is available as an installer and as a 7zip archive.

The words "an installer" and "a 7zip archive" are links to the two downloadable options (a .exe and a .7z, respectively). hehe linked you directly to the installer executable, which is what you need. All of this assumes of course that you're running Windows. All the other junk on that downloads page is for a variety of Linux versions.

Just wanted to bump this because it was helpful to me. I couldn't find a way to switch audio tracks on the new samsung TVs that have media support, so this solved that problem.
Thanks.

yeah this has helped me in the past as well.

well this worked it converted my file to english audio but when i play it in TM3 the picture is really bad and its all black and redish so i need to play it with VLC

if anyone knows why i get this problem plz reply...btw i'm runnin win 7

codec problem?

also we try to use English here, lets leave the texting language to phones.

Since this program does not encode Video, it would not have effected it. Did you check the original source first?

im kinda newb since i just got the program but yes i just unclick everything besides the movie file and english audio.

also i dont think its a codec problem since i ticked every movie file to associated with TM3. and it still didnt work. if i burn to a disc with it play correctly with my xbox 360? of course ill convert the file to xbox 360 will be able to read it.

1. What is TM3?
2. Before you do anything with mkvtools, did you try playing back the original file? How does it look.
3. So the final results play fine in VLC?

TM3 = total media Theater player which i am using

and yes when i play the original file it works fine (besides that it plays in russian)

yes final results work just fine in VLC, i dont really care how it looks on my computer as much as it will look on my HDTV. so if it will run fun on hdtv no problems then i suppose i should be set. but it would be helpful if i could fix this problem.

Sry. I really try to use the program mkvmerge.

I like to delete the Spanish audio and leave only English.

I have a picture shown in attached file - what should I choose there and what should I leave?



question.JPG 128k .JPG file

Try to do it because my lg smart tv that takes movies from pc chooses spanish and does not allow to change...



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kaur

I understand i should choose first and third, but then if I pres start, it gives me error:


Error: The name of the output file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Objetivo Terrum 3D (2009) [TV3D por USB][1080p][Eng-Lat][WwW.ZoNaTorrent.CoM].mkv' and of one of the input files is the same. This would cause mkvmerge to overwrite one of your input files. This is most likely not what you want.


this I can not understand...

output file should have a different name. it cannot read and write to the same original file.

Choose an "Output filename" different from the original one, or select a different folder.

sry could finally understand, the new file name must be different


great program!

No need to delete unwanted languages/subtitle streams - open mkvmerge\file\header editor, then load the file into it, and change the default behaviour there and save - done in seconds. No need to remux or save to another file. Language streams will still be there, but your player should honour the default setting, playing the file in your language of choice.

EDIT sorry kaur - didn't realise that your tv is set to a chosen language and that's why you want to delete. Might be worth a try anyway, see what happens when you change the default setting of the file.