AC3 Volume

[dvfanatic]

I have two ac3 files one in 5.0 and 5.1, using besweet i upped the 5ch ac3 audio to 6ch ac3, so i can have them on the dvd disk, but theres a problem with the volume. The problem is such that by playing around with the pregain setting in besweet i have the audio with what 'seems' to be at the best volume. It will play fine on the set top player(i.e. no notice in change of the tracks) but when played on a pc with windvd a diffrence in sound can be noticed. When played with powerdvd and showtime, a difference is also noticed but not of the same amplitude as on WinDVD. Any suggestions to have the tracks sound with insignificant or not noticeable change in volume on all platforms?


Thanks

[jeo]

i never use BeSweet to encode 5.1 for this reason,loose too much volume and more issues posted by Guru in doom9 audio faqs.

why did you up the 5Ch to 6?
don't need it,your receiver(prologic) will separate the respectives frequences to the LFE channel.

[LT. Columbo]

i experience the same thing with 5.1. plays beautiful on MPC for example, but not as loud on power dvd. of course when on a disc the standalone plays it like it should--very crisp, loud sound.

[anonymez]

are you sure its not the settings of your different players that are creating this 'difference'? each player you mentioned has completely different audio and video decoders, and a range of settings that affect how the audio sounds

i don't think besweet's encoding had anything to do with this, rather windvd/powerdvd's 'trusurround'/theater mode/super audio XT or whatever gimmicky name they've given it nowadays

[blutach]

(Agrees with anon)

Regards

[jeo]

me too blutach,and with LT. Columbo

5.1. plays beautiful on MPC

but this 2 topics inside this link: BeSweet's ac3enc creates extremly low-volume ac3 and ac3enc created weird 2.0 streams DSPguru post why BeSweet is not good for ac3.(for my taste is too bad)

regards

[blutach]

Is that still a "live issue" - it was opened 3 years ago jeo.

EDIT: Seems that way. Hmmm

Regards

[dvfanatic]

i never use BeSweet to encode 5.1 for this reason,loose too much volume and more issues posted by Guru in doom9 audio faqs.

Is there any other programs i can use, i tried vegas and many many others, none seem to give the original type of quality.

why did you up the 5Ch to 6?
don't need it,your receiver(prologic) will separate the respectives frequences to the LFE channel.

I had to since i wasn't able to put on a disk audio that is 5ch and 6ch, and even if I was able to, a volume difference will still be noticeable. The audio in question is of some ethnic film which had two releases, one with 5ch sound which is also higher in volume and 6ch, but the 6ch version has some scenes of the movies cutoff, so the volume difference is very annoying.

are you sure its not the settings of your different players that are creating this 'difference'? each player you mentioned has completely different audio and video decoders, and a range of settings that affect how the audio sounds

Even if it was, the sound of the movie as a whole would also be affected, and there shouldn't be any volume "jump" noticeable.