Is there a way to increase the volume of the SVCD?

[Beautiful Alone]

I use DVD2AVI to frameserve the video and audio files, then i load these files in TMPEGnc and encoded my movies, but i'm not satisfied with the volume, is there a way to increase the the volume?

[LanEvo7]

what do you mean? Like fit more onto a SVCD? You can just lower the bitrate

[jolo]

What you can do before is to load the avi into Virtualdub, then save the audio as a wav file, but before doing this, click on audio, then volume, then you get a screen where you can increase the volume level of the audio file.
Then save as wav file and encode the wav file along with the audio.

[evilwarmaster]

The easiest way would be to increase the volume in TMPGenc using the audio edit under the audio tab. You can boost the volume up to 400% of the original or normalize the volume.

However, using a program like BeSweet to encode a MP2 is probably going to have better quality.

[Beautiful Alone]

Well..isn't there a way to increase the volume in DVD2avi while frameserving?

[jolo]

I don't know if this helps, but on the DVD2AVI page, it shows how you can increase the noralization rate, therefore stableizing the volume and potentially increasing the volume.

http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~jackei/dvd2avi/doc/audio.html

[Beautiful Alone]

The easiest way would be to increase the volume in TMPGenc using the audio edit under the audio tab. You can boost the volume up to 400% of the original or normalize the volume.

However, using a program like BeSweet to encode a MP2 is probably going to have better quality.

That didn't work.

[EddyH]

Get an audio editing program (often used eg: Goldwave. don't use it but sounds similar to my favourite so it should be ok. plus, it's free)

Load the audio file you're using; if it's part of an existing AVI or something, rip it out using VDub (file menu -> save WAV). first set audio to direct stream, if that doesn't work then full processing, and convert to PCM, 16 bit, with whatever sampling rate and mono/stereo it already is.

Play with the volume, etc, controls to your hearts content. The oscilloscope display should end up looking neither like a flat line, big solid block, or a small wiggly thing, but a reasonably 'detailed' (yknow.. like a sound wave looks ) screen filling trace.

Save it again, reload into VDub as the audio source, serve away.

Good luck

[vitualis]

Don't just amplify the audio by 400% That will simply mean that at the "loud" parts of the movie, you will probably end up with clipping.

If you want to "boost" the volume, then normalise the audio to 98 or 99% I personally don't use 100% as you could potentially run into problems (again with clipping) but that is up to you.

Most conversion proggies at the audio stage gives you an option of dynamic range compression. This means that it boosts the quiet bits of audio and dampens the louder parts of the audio. This may be useful to you but use it with caution as you can ruin the audio if you make it too pronounced.

Regards.