If a DVD has many audio and subtitle streams, it may be tiresome to click through a dozen languages on the remote to select to turn on/off the one we use when playing the DVD, and thus would like to disable the needless ones as I talked in a previous article. Nevertheless, someone may want to preserve more than one audio and subtitle tracks when converting the DVD to other formats so as to have options on the audio tracks to hear and the subtitle tracks to display.

Unfortunately, most DVD converter tools ignore that someone may have this requirement and people who wanted to do that had to use several programs to extract the subtitle tracks and then muxed to the converted video file, which was complicated and time-consuming. However, now there are three free programs that allow people to convert DVD to those popular video formats with multiple audio and subtitle tracks. They are HandBrake and HDConvertToX which were updated to have this feature not long ago.

HandBrake

HandBrake converts a DVD folder with H264 or MPEG-4 codec into MKV or MP4 container. Just select the audio and subtitle tracks you want in the Audio tab and Subtitles tab as shown in the following screenshot. But, please note the MP4 container format doesn’t allow more than one sub tracks.

select audio tracks in Audio tab

select subtitle tracks in Subtitles tab

HDConvertToX

HDConvertToX is aimed for converting video files (vob/mkv/avi/m2ts/ts…) with XviD or DivX or X264 or WMV codec, and mux videos in AVI/MKV/MP4/WMV container. However, it only allows importing a file at a time, not like HandBrake which allows importing a whole DVD folder.

audio tracks and subs tracks selection

AutoGK

AutoGK simplifies the DVD to AVI/DivX/XviD conversion process. If you meet video compression error when using AutoGK, please refer to this article.

convert DVD with mutiple audio and subtitle tracks in AutoGK

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Handbrake is a cross-platform, powerful and free software tool that easily converts DVD video to another format, with many target devices like iPhone, iPod, Apple TV  for you to select in the Presets. With these presets, you can just simply choose the device you want to play your video with and then you don’t need to select the corresponding settings one by one manually. However,  there is no Zune HD option in the Presets. Therefore, if you have a Zune HD and want to convert a DVD to watch it in Zune HD  using HandBrake, you need to adjust the settings manually. Here are the steps and settings for converting DVD to Zune HD with HandBrake. Hope this is useful for you.

1.Download, install and launch HandBrake. Select the DVD file by clicking on Source.

open video file in HandBrake

Tip: If you are converting directly from a DVD, you may need to run a DVD decrypter in the background, since many DVDs are encrypted with copy-protection and HandBrake is unable to decrypt DVD.  You can use the freeware DVD43 as the decrypter.

2. Select the Iphone & Ipod Touch in Presets on the right side.

select iPhone&iPod Touch

3. In the “Picture” Tab, if you video aspect ratio is 16:9, change the resolution to 480 x 272. For non 16:9 video, set the resolution to 480 x “blank”. This will let the non 16:9 video to have a right 480 width but a smaller or larger height adjusted by HandBrake.

4. In the “Video” tab, leave all settings as they are.

5. In the “Audio” tab, change to “Stereo” and 160kbps.

Audio tab setting

6. Set a destination folder to save the converted file in.

set destination folder

7. Let the other settings keep as what they are and then click on Start at the top menu bar to begin the encoding. A window will open to show you the converting progress.

encoding

After it finishes, you will get a H264, M4V file ready for you to drag and drop to the Zune.

Tip: You can save the above settings for converting to Zune HD next time by clicking on Add button at the right bottom and store the whole settings as Zune HD or any name you like in the Presets..

save settings

Note: If you want a program to convert your video to Zune with much better quality, faster speed and more formats supported, you can check TouchUp DVD to Zune Converter, which release you from manually making the settings. What’s more, it lets you directly convert a DVD to your Zune without any other tool to decrypt the DVD first. You can read a tutorial for it to know this intuitive converting software further.

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