My first VCD- But Audio Sound level is Low. Why?

[mparkes]

I followed Sefys Classical Newbie guide to make my first VCD (Ripped from a DVD movie) - For the most part it turned out great - but the audio is rather low in volume, I really have to crank up the volume on the TV to get it to a normal level. Is this typical? Or maybe I did something wrong?
Thanks for any advice!

[HillJack]

For me, DVD audio is very low. Way back when when I ripped DVD to VCD, the audio was low too. My homeade TV-caps audio is just fine. I think it's just a fact of life; if DVD audio is low, then dvd->vcd audio will be low too (unless you normalize it first).

I personally never persued the matter, as for me, it's not worth all the time and effort when a DVD only costs $20 and you get all the extra's and perfect quality.

[BerrantRyke]

When you run your DVD files through DVD2AVI, use NORMILIZATION under the audio tab. Set the level to 100%.

Hope this helps you. Try a 1 minute clip to see if the result is acceptable for you...

[Deusxmachina]

What program are you using for the audio? For me, using Graphedit makes the sound MUCH louder. It's hard to say if it actually sounds any better than using DVD2AVI for the audio if the DVD2AVI audio was cranked up on the TV on playback, though. Both sound fine, but using Graphedit for audio is a night and day difference at lower volume. I'm talkin' nearly twice as loud.

I was going to say the opposite for DVD2AVI on the normalization. On some DVD2AVI audio I've done, sometimes I'll be watching an SVCD and the sound will suddenly drop down and I'll sit there thinking, "WTF?" And then after the scene is over it comes back to normal level.

I've never had Graphedit do that, so I figured it had to be a setting in DVD2AVI somewhere. I turned off normalization and haven't had a problem since when I've been forced to use DVD2AVI for audio.

Normalization is supposed to even out the audio level throughout, so I don't know why anyone would want to use it for a movie or much else if it's going to knock down the level every time there's a loud scene. Normalization is good for throwing various songs together onto one CD that may have been recorded at different volume levels, but I don't see any point in using it for a movie. People can feel free to try to change my opinion on the matter if they like, I won't mind, but from my personal encodings, it sucks.

[phhoth]

if your are using TMPenc, go to Audio setting, use dual channel and under setting use normalize and increase the audio level to about 158%. This will help