On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:28, Chris Frederick wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a mythtv box in my living room now, and I love it. Except that > some of the dvd movies that I rip tend to have very loud volumes mixed > with very soft speaking. [...] What sort of a speaker setup do you have? Stereo? Surround? 5.1? I haven't used the MythTV DVD program, but it might be possible to "downmix" the audio to stereo if you need it. If you take a 5.1-channel audio stream and only play the front-left and front-right tracks, the talking will be very soft because it is supposed to be sent through the center channel. I generally use MPlayer for watching movies, and added the line channels=2 to my ~/.mplayer/config file, which is supposed to make it downmix audio to two channels by adding sound from the "missing" speakers to the ones that actually exist. There might be a similar setup option for MythDVD. Also, some DVDs have both stereo and 5.1 audio tracks, so you should just use the stereo one if you just have two speakers. -- [ Michael Hicks | hick0088 at tc.umn.edu | Minneapolis ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050629/0d7dcd02/attachment.pgp