sound TOO low when played...how to fix?

[MoonPIE]

been playing avi's with WMP 8.0...

everything is fine except sound is too low i have to jack up speaker volume real high but then in windows the sound to too loud.....


any ideas?

ps. these files have ac3 in it

[UncasMS]

this ac3 filter lets you change the sound volume:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ac3filter/ac3filter_0_68b.exe?download

[MoonPIE]

i have this filter but there i dont' know which bar to increase

[UncasMS]

access the ac3 filter options during playback of your file (by rightclick or another player option)

in the MAIN tab you could increase MASTER
moreover, you could activate the EQUALIZER

[rhawke]

but what if it is MP3??

I have the same problem with some movies. Although I've already put the volume to a maximum within the software, in the Windows Mixer and on my hardware (Speakers + Stereo) you still have to be completely quiet to understand one damn word.

[rhawke]

just wanted to add, that also some DVDs are not really loud. It's enough to watch them, but I couldn't really burst up the volume.

Why is the sound on DVDs that low anyway?? I've tried DVDs on several DVD-Players Philips, Panasonic and on every one you had to set the TV-volume almost up to 100 %. Whereas normal TV needs only 40 to 50 %.

[deoli]

i've got the same problem. i'm using wmp 9 and AC3Filter ver 0.70b. avi files with ac3 sound track playback with the volume way too low and changing the settings in the filter configuration doesn't help.

[tomos]

what about mp3 audio? i know you can open it up in vritualdub and reenc it with a higher volume but if the file is damaged in part i get an error message. tried encoding the audio seperately but it doesnt always work.

the orig file plays back fine, just with very low sound.

[BoF]

- demux your mp3
- use MP3Gain to normalize (it doesn't decrease the mp3 quality)
- re-mux

It would be helpful to search for a realtime compression directshow sound filter.. If anybody knows..

[tomos]

doesnt work. i cant save the audio by itself since i get an error in vdub. that's why i tried using tmpegenc to encode the audio by itself. it does encode but most of the audio is just noise. if i play the avi then the sound is fine, just too low.

looks like only thing that'll work is a filter to boost the audio

[setarip]

To tomos

"i cant save the audio by itself since i get an error in vdub"

What is the EXACT wording of the error message?

What version of VirtualDub or VirtualDub hacks are you using?

[tomos]

oh god i dont believe it. i just did the exact same thing as before and no error message this time.

i saved the audio and can now increase volume as i want.

would still be nice to have a filter that can boost audio tho

[cletus]

I use to have the exact same problem. I couldn't just turn the volume up either due to some sort of weird underlying static that occurs ALL the time, even when I'm <literally> doing nothing. Very annoying.

Try TFM Audio Filter

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/tfm_filter.html

That should be what your looking for. I could turn up the audio without having to turn up the volume on my speakers.

Now if I can just figure out what's causing this static...

[Livewire]

blah blah been there done that.

windows sounds in general cannot agree on anything.
I was so annoyed about the windows sounds being so much louder than music or movies, I REMOVED sound events from windows.

No more unexpected Blasts. Oh, I also now have a manual volume control attenuator in the event that it needs squelching fast.

Oh, I got rid of the static 2 ways: replacing my onboard sound with Soundblaster Audigy card -AND- grounding my computer case directly to my AMP. No more Hum or Rattle and no more software fiddles.