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Honestly what I don't get is how this even happened though: it's been I think 10 years with no progress on getting the volume of things to equal out, even with
by XorNot 10mo ago
Honestly what I don't get is how this even happened though: it's been I think 10 years with no progress on getting the volume of things to equal out, even with all the fancy software we have. Like I would've thought that 5.1 should be relatively easy to normalize, since the center speech channel is a big obvious "the audience _really_ needs to hear this" channel that should be easy to amplify up in any downmix....instead watching anything is still just riding the damn volume button.
- sfn42 10mo agoI toyed with the idea of making some kind of app for this but while it may work on desktop it seems less viable for smart tvs which is what I primarily use. Though I have switched to mostly using Plex, so maybe I could look into doing something there.
- pentaphobe 10mo agoI was toying with the same thing for a bit - the hope was if it worked well you could build it into a little unit (audio or HDMI eARC) Doesn't solve for single units but could help with people who use soundbars or amps Abandoned though - was basically just multiband compression and couldn't find a way to make it adaptable enough (some media always ended up sucking) Would be super interested to hear what you tried!
- sfn42 10mo agoNever really tried anything. Just thought about it but I don't know the first thing about audio programming and like I said it doesn't seem viable for smart tvs anyway so I never did anything with it.
- account42 10mo agoThis is exactly the reason I avoid appliances like smart TV where you have no control over the software. With my PC (for which my big TV is just a dumb display) I can use mpv with ffmpeg's dynaudnorm filter.
- pentaphobe 10mo agoYeah it's wild - not only not improving but seemingly getting worse doesn't seem like anyone outside the audience thinks it's a serious problem (?)
- lazide 10mo ago‘Am I really that out of touch? No, it’s the kids that are a problem’ - Skinner, from a show long long ago.
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- Eisenstein 10mo agoMap the front speaker outputs to the side speakers and the problem will be mitigated. I have been using this setup for about 2 years and it lets me actually hear dialog.
- wombatpm 10mo agoThankfully the ad supported streaming brings occasionally brings you back to a proper sound mix and volume level.
- account42 10mo agoWith mpv you can use ffmpeg's dynaudnorm filter to fix this.