sound in vlc

[Tom]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:22:19PM +0200, Michael Flohr wrote:
> As far as I know this has to do with the way sound is
> recorded. In order to get a cinema like noise for special
> effects (explosions and the like, but also music), everything
> is gauged with respect to these loudest sound pieces. I have
> the feeling that they even expand the difference between
> soft sound (e.g. speech) and loud sound (e.g. shooting)
> artificially to "highten the experience".

yes, I guess so. my dolby surround amp offers a "cinema re-eq" option
to handle these playing-around-with-the-sound things.

> However, I noticed that some DVDs offer the same
> sound track (i.e. the same language) in two different
> encodings, Dolby 5.1 and Dolby Surround. The
> actual output, in particular of speech, is quite different,
> the former being much better balanced than the latter as
> far as small PC speakers are concernded.

I'll try. I'm piping everything through said dolby amp anyways, so by
choosing the right soundtrack/amp setting combination I might get
better sound.


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