On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Chris Frederick wrote: > I have a mythtv box in my living room now, and I love it. Except that > some of the dvd movies that I rip tend to have very loud volumes mixed > with very soft speaking. And sometimes theres a movie that I have to > blast the volume on to hear anything. I was wondering if there is > anything short of re-ripping the dvds and applying several audio filters > that could help. Re-ripping isn't that big a deal, but the idea of > spending hours per movie making sure that backgrounds don't drown out > the foregrounds is somewhat overwhelming. Is there any kind of audio > filter that I can put in place that will scale the volume so it stays in > a certain range? Never getting too quiet, yet never too loud? Or is > there some easy way to fix the really bad ones so when I notice that the > audio on one file is bad, I can fun something to fix the file? Set up mplayer to do 5.1 output to your surround sound system so you can balance the channels properly on your receiver? :) Really, I've seen the same problems on raw dvd's - if you pop them in a normal dvd player on a tv with just left/right, a lot of times the background overpowers the foreground. As far as post-ripping filters, anything that mplayer supports should work (assuming you're using mythvideo to play, so you can tweak the command line.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------