Hello Chrissyboy!

Though over time I made many VCDs, I hardly ever played them, -and that not only because I hate getting up in the middle of the movie. Seemed as if the image quality is not that good. Only now I am beginning to appreciate all the work done. It even looks as if, after the SVCD2DVD treatment, they have a better image quality. Might that be because of all the padding done?

Anyway, all the VCDs come from different sources (TV, VHS, -legally!- ripped DVD's) and setups, like a Cinax 'real-time' recording program using Hauppauge on a Celeron 300, Asus V7100 produce or DivX's encoded with TMPGEnc+ on P3 600, two different ATI AIW's with P4, an AV@MPG2 with hardware MPG1/2 encoding. And they all treat sound differently. Even change the recording volume, some of them, it seems.

So now, when I play my new DVD's, I may find the volume too low with the first movie, so I turn up the TV sound, and then get blasted on the next. But there is nothing I can do about that any more. If I demux, normalize, change to 48k, and remux, I'm doing most of SVCD2DVD's work for it. And that's what I don't need to any more.

Would it not be possible to put in a Normalizing option? TMPGEnc has one, and Virtualdub can at least change the volume. I still don't understand exactly how it works, but my MP3's ripped, normalized and encoded with Jackie Franck's AudioGrabber all have the same volume, even though they come from different audio CD's.

Will you look into it? Thanks in advance.

Callan