I hope someone would help me adjust my sound.
When I watch movies the sound reminds me of being in a movie theater. In order to hear the talking, the bass sounds and car chases and pretty much everthing else seem like they are at 3 or more times the volume. Its too much for an old fart like me.
I hope to adjust to a much more even sound(). Does this kind of make sense - do you understand what I hope for?
By law, I am only allowed to use the VLC media player on the Mageia Linux operating system.
My version of VLC has this in the audio "extended settings" ;
A compressor with;
RMS/peak, attack, Release, Threshold, Ratio, Knee-radius, Makeup-gain.
The equalizer has a preamp plus 10 slides. It has a bunch of presets but none are labled for movies or voice or such.
And it has a Spatializer.
From reading so far the only thing I have tried is turning down the bass and turning the threshold all the way down, which helps a little but I would like to do much more.
Thanks if you can help.
When I watch movies the sound reminds me of being in a movie theater. In order to hear the talking, the bass sounds and car chases and pretty much everthing else seem like they are at 3 or more times the volume. Its too much for an old fart like me.
I hope to adjust to a much more even sound(). Does this kind of make sense - do you understand what I hope for?
By law, I am only allowed to use the VLC media player on the Mageia Linux operating system.
My version of VLC has this in the audio "extended settings" ;
A compressor with;
RMS/peak, attack, Release, Threshold, Ratio, Knee-radius, Makeup-gain.
The equalizer has a preamp plus 10 slides. It has a bunch of presets but none are labled for movies or voice or such.
And it has a Spatializer.
From reading so far the only thing I have tried is turning down the bass and turning the threshold all the way down, which helps a little but I would like to do much more.
Thanks if you can help.
I just remembered that in the extended settings there is also a chioce for "2-pass"
and
In addition to the "extended" settings module of VLC, there is available in the main "Preferences"; Settings > Advanced > , there are a large number of audio settings in there too. I am trying to take some screenshots but not yet succeeded - it would be too much to type in here.
Also, even a pointer to any Website/info (For Non Technical people) might help
and
In addition to the "extended" settings module of VLC, there is available in the main "Preferences"; Settings > Advanced > , there are a large number of audio settings in there too. I am trying to take some screenshots but not yet succeeded - it would be too much to type in here.
Also, even a pointer to any Website/info (For Non Technical people) might help
Some of it is too much dynamic range for home listening, but I swear some of it has to be in the mix/decode side of things. We had a TV that was awful about this. Dialog way under fx and music. Like it was dropping the center channel.
You might give JRiver Media center a try. Free for 30 days. It is, by far, the most flexible player I know. You can tweak the audio settings to your heart's content. It may be something as simple as how the center channel is mapped.
You might give JRiver Media center a try. Free for 30 days. It is, by far, the most flexible player I know. You can tweak the audio settings to your heart's content. It may be something as simple as how the center channel is mapped.
I just searched "vlc sound plugins" and this was literally the first search result...
https://www.ab9il.net/digital-audio/vlc-audio-dynamics.html
https://www.ab9il.net/digital-audio/vlc-audio-dynamics.html
JRiver has an Adaptive Volume within the DSP sections with "Night Mode" Setting. Reading the description might fit the task. I never tried this though. I do use "Peak level normalise" for my own purposes and analyse all files before playback.
Thanks to all,
I can only use Vlc.
Any1, that link to the Vlc page is outrageously good, even I can understand it but it still seems to be complete info for home use at least if not more.
Thanks again all and especially Anonymous1
I can only use Vlc.
Any1, that link to the Vlc page is outrageously good, even I can understand it but it still seems to be complete info for home use at least if not more.
Thanks again all and especially Anonymous1
In your first post you describe the compressor, which sounds like what you need to use to compress the dynamic range. I'd start with the threshold fairly low, the ratio high, and the attack and release fairly short. if the result sounds like it is "breathing" you can lengthen the attack and release parameters.
If that is no help, then set it back the way it was.
Ever listen to TV news, and a reporter is standing beside a busy highway or some other noisy place? And whenever they are talking, the background sounds drop to a lower level. But when they pause for a second, the background sound turns itself up. That is an example of breathing.
A more extreme example might be in a restaurant or someplace with music, whenever the paging system is used for an announcement, the music drops to a lower level. That is ducking, but the same idea.
If that is no help, then set it back the way it was.
Ever listen to TV news, and a reporter is standing beside a busy highway or some other noisy place? And whenever they are talking, the background sounds drop to a lower level. But when they pause for a second, the background sound turns itself up. That is an example of breathing.
A more extreme example might be in a restaurant or someplace with music, whenever the paging system is used for an announcement, the music drops to a lower level. That is ducking, but the same idea.
I run PCM signal (win7 ultimate) and ran into the same issue and it's annoying.
IF you are willing to sacrifice a tiny amount of SQ, go into windows-> Playback Devices-> right-click your output device then select "Properties" -> Enhancements tab. Hopefully you have "Loudness Equalization" under the enhancements box. Select that check box then "apply" and "OK".
Close out the play back device box and your sounds should be more closely together, w/o extreme "peaks". This setting will act like a limiter and keep lower sounds and those x3 theatrics sounds much tighter together.
If you also listen to music a lot, you might not like it as it can hinder the music a bit, but for TV and movies, it works well enough. No idea how well it works in non-stereo i.e. 5.1, 7.1, etc.
IF you are willing to sacrifice a tiny amount of SQ, go into windows-> Playback Devices-> right-click your output device then select "Properties" -> Enhancements tab. Hopefully you have "Loudness Equalization" under the enhancements box. Select that check box then "apply" and "OK".
Close out the play back device box and your sounds should be more closely together, w/o extreme "peaks". This setting will act like a limiter and keep lower sounds and those x3 theatrics sounds much tighter together.
If you also listen to music a lot, you might not like it as it can hinder the music a bit, but for TV and movies, it works well enough. No idea how well it works in non-stereo i.e. 5.1, 7.1, etc.
Any progress? Most of the suggestions have been for compression, but I still wonder if it isn't a channel mix problem. That's what the description sounds like to me.
The "loudness equalization" works on my stereo by raising quieter sounds and lowering "loud" theatrical scenes, allowing for master volume to be set and left alone, vs. having to turn up ultra quiet whispers then immediately reduce volume as a car explodes, etc. , which is more suited to a small room with horrible acoustics that drown out quieter vocals w/o the enhancement activated.
Thought that's what the thread creator was looking for? Forgot to mention, you can go further into the adjustments and alter the effect from "short to long". Default seems to be short, but adjusting a little more to the "long" side of slider would open up the dynamic range peaks a bit. Being a master setting, this works with anything from VLC, to browser window videos. Give a shot.
Thought that's what the thread creator was looking for? Forgot to mention, you can go further into the adjustments and alter the effect from "short to long". Default seems to be short, but adjusting a little more to the "long" side of slider would open up the dynamic range peaks a bit. Being a master setting, this works with anything from VLC, to browser window videos. Give a shot.
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