media center software for dual-audio VCD recommendation

Question

I already have a large collection of Karaoke VCD, they are basically mpeg movies with dual audio track. ie, the left audio channel has the music only, and right channel has music + vocal. In karaoke, one would normally select the left channel to be play thur both speaker.

I'm aware of Media center software like xbmc or mediaportal, but never played with them. I tried searching for their website, but can't for sure whether it can select a single audio around like this or not. I found a post that xbmc didn't support this, but it was back in 2004.

Does anyone have any recommendation / experience on an easy to use software for this? open to either Win or Linux options.

UPDATED: Looks like XBMC won't work since it's no longer using mplayer: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=74451 Are there any alternatives that are easy to operate? Imagine your grandpa & grandma using it... so not very computer savy.

Answer 1

End up using VLC. audio > audio channels > choose left or right

Answer 2

XBMC now supports selection of left or right channel audio stream for video playback. According to XBMC Features and Supported Formats/Codecs page,

• Switch between multiple audio streams/tracks
• Left, Right, Mono and Stereo channel selection available for all two channel audio-streams