Sound on VCD burned is quiet

[mikeleung25]

I have just burned my 1st vcd from a dvd which I am proud of but when I play it back on a vcd machine or my pc, the sound seems to be quiet which means I have to turn the sound very high to listen.
I used a .wav for the audio when I encoded it.
Any ideas as to whats wrong??

[PatMar]

make sure that the sound card settings for CAPTURE are set correctly
mostly you hear the player mode not the capture mode of the sound card


goto start>programs>accesiores>entertainment>mixer
here you goto options and settings to select the record devices

[ngnr]

I am assuming you ripped the DVD which means your capture settings won't make any difference since you are not capturing.

It's to do with the level of audio on the original DVD and how it was ripped. Some rippers (perhaps all - I don't really know) have a setting where you can change the level of the audio when you rip it so that it will playback either lower or higher as you specify. If your program doesn't, after you rip, demux and use an audio editor to normalize the audio to a higher level and then re-mux and burn. That will take care of it. Just don't make the audio too high or you'll get clipping and distortion.

[mikeleung25]

Thanks for the tips guys, I'll try them...by the way, I did rip from an original DVD (which sounds normal on playback) using Smart ripper and following sefys guide..
anyway, thanks again!

[Sefy]

Just my two cents, try playing the WAV file first, usually how the volume is, will also be on the final "product", you can use TMPGEnc to amplify the volume, or I would more suggest use a program like SoundForge or Cool Edit to amplify the volume in the WAV file before the encoding.

[vitualis]

DVDs tend to have an average volume lower than most other sources we are used to (e.g., CDs). This is partly due to the massive dynamic range on DVDs and partly due to the fact that most other things (e.g., CDs) have the average level too high.

Assuming you are playing your VCD through a stand-alone player with an external amplifier, it shouldn't make any difference... just try turning up the volume!

Else, on most of the DVD ripping methods (e.g., FlaskMPEG or DVD2AVI based), there are provisions in change settings to either decrease the dynamic range and/or normalise the audio.

Regards.