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📣 JumpinJack_Cash

Movie night with a person who needs dubs, I like ENG,how to split audio?


Movie night with a person who needs dubs, I like ENG,how to split audio?


  👤 rcarr Accepted Answer ✓
2 sets of AR glasses, hit play at the same time.

I'm a little bit obsessed with AR glasses at minute.

In all seriousness though if you're on a Mac you can use SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba to route audio. So if you were streaming something on Netflix, you might be able to connect two sets of bluetooth headphones to the Mac, open Netflix in two separate browsers, route one browser's audio to one set of headphones, route the other's browser's audio to the other set of headphones, hit play on both of them and then just maximise the window/AirPlay the one that is in the native language (because it probably doesn't make much difference if the picture is a few ms out for the one with the dub). Hacky, and there's probably something better out there, but it's low effort and would probably do the job. Dependent on you being in the Apple ecosystem though.


👤 captaindiego
If you're willing to mess with audio and have an AVI/MKV, you could extract the audio from the two tracks you want, convert the 2 channel (from the surround mix), then flatten to mono, and put track 1 and 2 into the stereo left and right channels. Then get an adapter that takes stereo and outputs each to a mono 3.5 connector, and then convert that back to stereo for the headphones. You can do this with a mix of mkvtool, audacity, and ffmpeg.. although it is a fair bit of effort. Likely the suggestion from rcarr is quicker

👤 JumpinJack_Cash
As per the title I’d love if somebody has a readymade solution, but am willing to invest some time to do it myself.

In short I need to have video on the TV and then 2 separate audio channels , each one going into their own set of Airpods.

Channel A : Movie audio with Dubs

Channel B : Original Eng