Low volume

[Eric Nichols]

As others have mentioned, I have to turn up the volume to the max to
hear the dialog. Under W2k, the same level setting on the sound card
would be too loud using the Mediamatics DVD player that came with my
laptop. I'm guessing they must do some sort of software audio
compression to achieve this. Could this be done in VLC?

BTW, I really like VLC and am very appreciative of the the development
team's efforts to produce an open source player of this quality.

Regards,

Eric

On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 07:14, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001, Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> 
> > Using vlc 0.2.90, any DVD I play has volume set to the minimum.  I need
> > to turn the volume of the sound system up to the maximum to hear
> > anything -- at first I thought sound was broken.
> 
>    Sound level in AC3 streams is purosely very low, in order to allow
> for greater dynamics (explosion sounds for instance). You will need to
> increase the volume of your sound system (sound card and amplifier).
> Doing this in software (ie, at the vlc level) would result in distortion
> and saturation for high volume scenes.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Sam.
>