Loud Sound

[Amaze]

for some reason, the capture I did last night has really loud sound, is there any way to reduse it?

[MrMungus]

for some reason, the capture I did last night has really loud sound, is there any way to reduse it?

How is the audio getting into your computer and/or capture card? Is it using your sound card as audio input? If so, just adjust your record level settings in "Recording Control" in Windows.

[johns0]

If its an avi file you captured to then open in virtualdub and set audio to full processing mode and set the volume to the level you want and set video to direct stream processing and save avi as..

[Amaze]

unfortunatly, the file I have left is an svcd-mpg...

[johns0]

Demux the mpg and run the mp2 thru besweet with pregain set to what percentage you need and remux.

[Amaze]

what's demux and remux?

[Amaze]

up...

[Amaze]

ok, I found it in tmpgenc, thanks for telling me...anyway, I'm not sure what settings to use in besweet?

[bunyip]

Here's a typical command line to convert an audio file.

"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input audio.mp2 -output audio.mpa -logfile audio.log ) -ota( -g max ) -ssrc( --rate 48000 ) -2lame( -e -b 224 -m s )

The '-ota( -g max )' command 'normalises' the volume, try this first, if it's still too loud then try reducing the volume by changing the value 'max' to a negative decibel value,
eg '-ota( -g -5db )'.

Also change the other vlaues to suit your file (rate, kps, input file, output file etc).

[Amaze]

thanks, I tried your code, wasn't really any difference, I'll try the negative decibel value now...

[Amaze]

thanks a bunch, with -15db it was back to normal...I have no idea why it got so loud in the first place...

[bunyip]

Glad it worked.

The audio is normally captured through the 'line in' socket on your sound card, this has it's own volume control separate from the standard PC volume - check this, it's probably set too high.

[Amaze]

that's the weird thing, I've been capturing for a month now, and all of a sudden this one capture got insane sound, I haven't changed my settings before or after, and now it's back to normal, maybe comedycentral had a problem?