[ale] Normalize DVD audio on the fly?

[James Sumners]

With mplayer you can add `-aop list=volnorm` to the command line and
it should normalize the audio. But I don't know how well it would
work.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Joe Bayes <jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Does anybody know of a tool that I can use to compress the range of
> DVD audio on the fly? Specifically, I want to make the quiet sounds
> louder, and the loud sounds quieter. As it is, I have to turn up the
> audio so I can understand the conversation, then quickly turn it down
> so I don't deafen the neighbors when an "action" scene starts.
>
> I know I can do this by ripping the tracks and then re-burning them. I
> don't want to do that; I just want to put in the DVD and play it.
>
> I usually use kaffeine or mplayer to watch the dvd's, but I'd be
> willing to switch to something else if necessary. This is for a Fedora
> 9 system.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joe


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