Solved! Compressing DVD to MP4

Jan 30, 2022
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I am a veteran "Video Handler" (not electronic tech, but understand the ins and outs). I recently ran into a problem:
I have an old ripped DVD that has a movie with 2 soundtracks, French and English (French is the original & English is a dubbing).
I have no problem watching the DVD on any DVD player and switch between the languages through the menu.

Now I tried to compress the DVD into MP4 file, but my Mac's "MPEG Streamclip" program provides me only with the French version
and I have no idea where to look for the English version on the disk and make it stick to the movie.

Has anybody here encountered something like that and have a solution?

I know I can just copy the movie between 2 DVD machines, but I try to avoid it in order not to lose quality in the process.

Thank you,

Dave The Ripper.
 
Solution
Try another program. Don't know if Handbrake is available for the MAC but that is a great one to use. Any good quality compression program should give you the choice of what audio stream to encode if there are more than one.