Audio From Dvd Rips

[Echoes]

Ive been ripping dvds for a while now its works great except for one little problem ive found.
The problem is as follows, once the vcds are created from the dvd the audio on the vcd is very low and requires me to turn the volume on my speakers up quite high, but this does not work for my laptop as the sound system is not as good as my pc.
So what i want to know is, is there anyway for me to amplify the volume before i make the vcd using TMPGEnc without damaging it? I was thinking of using wave studio from creative to do it would this work without causing any problems?
Also because most of my dvds are already converted to mpg is there any way for me to amplify these videos?

Any help would be great

Cheers.

[poopyhead]

u won't be able to do much about the already created VCDs...however, if the volume is that low, you can normalize your future dvd rips w/ dvd2avi....there should be an option in dvd2avi under the audio tab to normalize the volume.

[Mirror_Image]

You could extract the audio as a wav file, use just about anything to turn up the volume, use TMPGenc to convert it back into VCD-compliant mpeg-1 layer-2 audio and then re-multiplex it with the video (back into a VCD compliant ready-to-burn mpeg-1). It would take less time than re-encoding the video again.

I have done this several times to extract the audio from old movies (i.e. pre-WW2 vintage, captured to mpeg from cable TV - WC Fields' "The Dentist" and other such classics) in order to clean up (hiss removal, etc) and enhance (add subtle "artificial stereo" effects, perhaps) the crummy original mono audio tracks using Sound Forge.

[pinoy2201]

anthor way is f u didnt encode the movie u can got to advance Settings or Audio (newer version and select Audio affect TMPGEnc has a built in Normalizer

[boldego]

Do you use the normalizer or change the volume setting to a higher percent?