# Removing multiple audio tracks from an AVI video file

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-multiple-audio-tracks-from-an-avi-video-file/378394>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 30, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-multiple-audio-tracks-from-an-avi-video-file/378394 "2006-10-30T02:50:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-multiple-audio-tracks-from-an-avi-video-file/378394/1 "2006-10-30T02:50:14Z")

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So I’ve got a whole bunch of .avi video files that have multiple audio tracks (english, foreign language, commentary, etc.). Unfortunately, the media center program that I use with my TV doesn’t have an easy way to switch audio tracks on a video using the embedded player and many of them seem to default to the commentary track.

Anyone know of a good way to strip out the extraneous audio tracks so that I’m just left with just the video and the default english?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-multiple-audio-tracks-from-an-avi-video-file/378394/2 "2006-10-30T09:49:12Z")

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I think I’m right in saying an AVI file is just a container for one of a few different types of video object; yours sounds like it contains MPEG.

I believe VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod will do what you want; you might have to do it in several operations - i.e. extract the audio stream you want, extract the video stream, then re-dub them back together

[http://www.virtualdub.org/](http://www.virtualdub.org/)  
[http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/](http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/)

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-multiple-audio-tracks-from-an-avi-video-file/378394/4 "2014-09-03T08:03:02Z")

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**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-multiple-audio-tracks-from-an-avi-video-file/378394/7 "2015-02-13T10:30:10Z")

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Jayrot asked the question over eight years ago, and hasn’t posted for four. I think the advice might be a little late.