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<p class="">Dear VLC Developers for Android,<br></p><p class="">I'm writing to you because I think there is a critical feature
missing in almost all video players you can use on an Android TV.<br><br>The problem is the following: When watching movies one constantly has to do volume up and down
because the dialogue is too quiet and the background music is too loud.<br><br>A lot of people have this problem:<br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/g0d2vv/is_anyone_else_having_problems_with_watching/">https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/g0d2vv/is_anyone_else_having_problems_with_watching/</a><br><br>This
is a really widespread problem. Maybe not for enthusiasts with a proper
5.1 system, but for all ordinary people it is a problem.<br><br>It was discussed that the issue is the channel mixing strategy from
5.1 to stereo. People have suggested better channel mixing coefficient
that solve the problem: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=168267">https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=168267</a><br><br>However, you always have to reencode the movie with ffmpeg for this
custom channel mixing. You cannot do this is the movie is on a BluRay or
whatever. <br><br>But the solution would be so easy: The
video player on my TV
should do this channel mixing. In real time! That's totally possible.
Just make an option to set custom channel coefficients for each channel.
This would be a very useful feature! We need a way to input a formula
like "FL=FC+0.30*FL+0.30*BL" (or with different values) into VLC channel
down mixing algorithm. There should be an option in the UI to realize
this. A text box where you can write a custom formula, or something like
this. Or a table where you can specify coefficients for each channel.
Shouldn't be too much effort.<br><br>Please consider implementing
something like this. I can ensure you, VLC for Android TV would
skyrocket if this was available. For a lot of people this would be such
an important feature. <br><br>Best,<br>Herbert<br></p> </body>
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