[MPlayer-users] dvd (ac3) volume <-> standard (mp3) volume

[Dexter Filmore]

> 
> Yes. People who make DVDs are idiots and record most of the sound ad
> very low level so they can "utilize the whole dynamic range", i.e. you
> can't hear voices when people talk but as soon as there's a gunshot it
> wakes up your neighbors 10 houses down the street. :(((

Strange, I only have this problem with ac3-mp3 downmixed divx movies. Playing
DVDs is just fine here. liba52 is absolutely capable of decoding ac3 with
DynRangeCompression. Dunno whether you have to ./configure mplayer to use the
external one or whether it uses it's own (the latter IIRC?)

Dex