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| 192828 | 2003-11-18 06:59:00 | Is anybody able to tell me why I have to have the volume turned up to max when I am listening to a DVD movie. The sound is not a problem when playing music CD's etc. Thanks |
dunny (4882) | ||
| 192829 | 2003-11-18 07:11:00 | does the speaker and the software have a volume dial?? This is windows as well as the DVD software u are using... are the speakers amplified by its own power source?? Or are u simply plugging them into the PC and nothing else?? If the speakers does not have its own power source to the wall and such .. make sure u use the speaker output which can use the sound card's builtin AMP. If it does have its own power source, use it.... |
nomad (3693) | ||
| 192830 | 2003-11-18 07:38:00 | the same thing happens to me when im using stuff like WinDVD, you cant avoid it, but ive noticed that Windows Media player 9 makes the volume louder. | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 192831 | 2003-11-18 07:59:00 | DVD movie audio uses AC3 compression which splits the sound up into different channels so it can be played on your speaker setup in 5.1 surround sound etc. If you only have 2 speakers or similiar, the computer is sending audio data off to non-existant speakers and hence you have quieter sound. Have a play round in the control panel under audio settings. You might be able to change your speaker setup to 2 speakers etc. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 192832 | 2003-11-18 08:11:00 | thats fairly normal. DVD's are normally a bit quieter. most dvd disks have 2 channal output as well as 5.1 on the disk. check volume control in dvd player software and also check for sound card driver updates. i've had a problem with one where updateing the driver help a lot with low volume with dvd's. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 192833 | 2003-11-18 08:17:00 | As Dunny has said, the low volume problem is with DVD sound. The CD sound volume is normal. And so the advice above about amplified speakers, power sources, plugged into the wall, or Pc or whatever, is not relevant. The CD sound is OK, and so it seems the speaker setup is OK. It seems more likely the problem is with the DVD software, or the Windows volume mixer settings for the DVD drive. Maybe someone can offer suggestions. Nomad referred to a possible sound card's built in power amplifer. Can anyone comment on this? Is it likely, or common on recent soundcards? The only ones I've used have line output, rather than a power amp output. |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 192834 | 2003-11-18 08:26:00 | If the DVD player is defaulting to 5 . 1 channel sound, then it could also be setting up the sound card outputs for 5 . 1 . This reconfigures the mic and line in sockets as outputs in some cases, so your "normal" 2 channel sound might not be using the appropriate outputs? You may be able to reconfigure the DVD sound back to 2 channel if this is the case . |
godfather (25) | ||
| 192835 | 2003-11-18 21:53:00 | Due to the dynamic range of a DVD audio track it will sound quite low in volume. This is especially noticable if playing a DVD on laptop as the speakers aren't very big and don't have an externaly powered amp as most PC speakers do. There is not a lot you can do other than get some bigger speakers with an external power to amplify the sound more. If you have ever ripped a DVD to VCD or DivX you will have noticed this as well and can compensate for it by telling TMPGEnc (or VirtualDub) to bump up the volume to 200% of normal |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 192836 | 2003-11-18 23:05:00 | Skim reading this, Has anybody actually mentioned the likes of PowerDVD having an option under its Preferences for "Noisy settings", it increases the volume, especially useful for laptops etc. See if your DVD Player has a similar option! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 192837 | 2003-11-19 01:58:00 | Can't see that option chill in PowerDvd 5. Perhaps some more directions? ;) | PoWa (203) | ||
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