remove non english audio?

harley-c

After a bit of help if possible...

I want to remove non-english audio. I see the remove audio and add tracks, but it seems to want to re-encode the audio when it adds it back

Is it possible to jsut strip the non-engligh tracks and add back the english ones in eactly the same format?

If the source file had atmos or dts-hd etc it should stay the same ... just get rid of the non english tracks. I'm doing this to reclaim space so just want to quickly remove tracks that i'm never going to use and not waste cycles re-encoding the remaining english tracks.

I may just not be understanding things properly here....

reven

https://docs.fileflows.com/plugins/video-nodes/ffmpeg-builder/track-remover

Use that node,
type: audio
pattern: en
not match: true

That will remove anything that is not "en" (english)

harley-c

ah ... that makes sense. So i just needed the remove one ... I was looking at some examples which had both chained together

Thanks for the quick reply

reven

correct, that will remove ALL tracks that match those parameters.

harley-c

just a thought ... i assume if i had a foreign film with no english audio track i will end up with a file with no audio?

reven

correct you would.

in that case you could use Video Has Stream and test if there's an en audio first before removing

harley-c

got it, thanks. I'll update my flow and give it a test run

it's a great tool, I'm sure it's going to make a massive difference to my overloaded home server.