Audio issues with high quality rips..

[SE14man]

Hi there,

A lot of my rips from DVD are playing strange. I have 2 normal computer speakers (not surround sound) and when playing in VLC, on the quiet bits of movies such as 'people talking' for example, it's very very quiet so i have to turn it up. Then when say an explosion happens (on the movie) it deafens everyone and i have to rush to the speakers to turn it down.

Media Player Classic tends to handle this a bit better but not a great deal!

Is there a function in either VLC or MPC to properly resolve these issues?

Thank you.

[Soopafresh]

Try Kmplayer, which has a Dynamic Range Compressor (DRC) plugin available. VLC might as well.

Settings->Preferences->Audio codecs->A/52->A/52 Dynamic Range Compression

[jagabo]

Go to your AC3 decoder and set it to downmix to stereo. Also, make sure your sound card's speaker settings are set to stereo.

In MPC: View -> Options -> Internal Filters. In the Transform Filters box double click on AC3. Set AC3 and DTS to Decode To Speakers -> Stereo.

From Control Panel: Sounds and Audio Devices, Volume tab, Speaker Settings -> Advanced -> Desktop Stereo Speakers.

[redwudz]

Maybe 'Normalize' in MPC 'Audio Switcher'? And with VLC, 'Volume normalizer' in 'Audio Settings'?