[MPlayer-users] compress audio dynamic range

[Joonas Koivunen]

On Monday 08 September 2003 19:16, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I've got a film, encoded with very wide dynamic range... I don't have
> bad speakers, but they just can't bear it - if I set volume high enough
> to hear quiet sounds, the loud ones tend to scare all neighbors ;)
>
> I want to compress audio range to something sane, I tried
> -af volume=5:sc, audio became more loud, but I don't feel any
> compressing effect. And I wonder if I am doing this right way, where can
> I set exactly how much I want to compress audio dynamic range?
>
> If this is impossible with mplayer, which tool can I use?
-aop list=volnorm

have you tried it? or something like that, can't really remember the syntax, 
check FTM. :)

-rzei