Firstly, I’m very much a newb.
Secondly, if you read my title and scoffed, it’s not quite as dumb as it sounds. I think. The show is How I Met Your Mother and the audio is in 5.1. It seems like the audio is distributed thus:
Front left and right: dialogue, laugh track, music.
Front centre: dialogue.
Rear left and right: music.
Is there a straightforward way to remove only the audio from the front left and right channels which is unique to them, ie. the laughter? I tried looking it up and found stuff about the Invert and Vocal Reduction effects, and tried having a play with them, but I really don’t know what I’m doing. Obviously I could watch the show with two of the channels muted, but I’d prefer a more elegant solution if such a thing is possible.