[Mplayer-users] audio from DVDs quiet

[Felix Bünemann]

Hello Nicholas,

Friday, July 20, 2001, 6:58:25 PM, you wrote:

> hello. MPlayer is great.

> one thing to report: audio volume from DVDs is rather quiet. seems consistent with any DVD i try.

> very odd to me. audio volume of most other (maybe all?) .mpeg and .avi files is considerably higher. to watch a movie i have to turn my master volume to 100% and pcm volume to 80% and higher. at
> this level all other system sounds (ex mp3s from xmms and the "bring" in gaim) are very very loud. i have been getting around this problem by making sure nothing else will be playing sounds while i
> watch DVDs. however, it would be nice if DVDs were at a more normal volume level. also it is a tad annoying because when turned way up, my sound card emits a slight buzzing sound, where as with mp3
> and such i don't have to turn it way up and don't hear the buzz.

> i have ALSA sound setup. have tried with and w/o -ao alsa5 and also tried w/o ALSA and just plain OSS driver for my card: no change.

> any thoughts?  i've tried the CVS version. also i checked the source and read a little bit about ac3 audio. experimented with the dialnorm variable in libac3/parse.c with no luck. is there a global
> "audio gain" variable that could be a command line switch perhaps?

It's normal, sound on DVDs is alway less loud, because DVD has very
broad sound spectrum so most times it's not very loud but goes very
loud in action scenens then (ie. explosions).

> thanks!

>         - Nicholas J Kreucher



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 Felix                            mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net



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