On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Terry Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm essentially trying to create an Ogg file that works like DVD video does. > [...] > > What tools exist to merge separate single-channel FLAC files into a > multichannel FLAC?
Okay, I actually figured out how to do this more or less on my own, so let me summarize. I was expecting to need a command line utility, but Audacity, it turns out, has the ability to remap channels as of version 1.3.3. It's necessary to set (v1.3.12): Edit -> Preferences... -> Import/Export -> Use Custom MIx * Import each FLAC file into a track. * Label in some way you can recognize * Export * Choose FLAC output * Map the tracks (by label) to the correct output channel (The FLAC 5.1 standard being: L, R, C, LFE, LS, RS) This creates a .FLAC contain the 5.1 surround sound. Then use the 'flac' command line utility to convert to Ogg FLAC: $ flac my_51_MUX.flac --ogg -o my_51_MUX.oga Then use the 'oggz-merge' utility to combine the track with video. Can also do extra tracks: $ oggz-merge my_Theora_video.ogv my_51_MUX.flac my_STEREO.flac my_SP_STEREO.flac [...] -o my_combined_video_file.ogv Playback tests fine in VLC. The drop-down audio menu gives track choices by number for each of the tracks, and playback of sound is what I expect. This is with VLC v1.1.3. So far, so good. Thanks, Terry _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
