DVD Sound

[Wade Majors]

AC-3, DTS, etc are by nature encoded using low volume sources. This 
gives the audio track more bandwidth headroom for "intense" stuff like 
explosions.

This is totally normal, on software players as well as your set-top 
player. I would oppose any kind of "amp" in VLC.

-Wade Majors
guru at startrek.com

>I now understand what a previous poster is saying. The sound output of
>VLC is pretty low. Perhaps that's because normally I listen to 
compressed
>music and VLC is playing less compressed sound (I say 'compressed' in 
the
>dynamic range sense of the word, not like mp3 vs wav!).
>
>But there seems to be no volume output within VLC. Is this a design
>decision, or a feature to add?