CZroe
7th September 2006, 21:14
How do I raise the volume of a source when encoding to WMV?
Most TV episodes synchronized from my Media Center PC to my Portable Media Center are WAY too low (volume). That said, any DVD I encode is 100% inaudible without headphones unless I process it with VirtualDub first and encode to an intermediary DivX/XviD/h.264 format (I can't bother with that... may as well just watch it on TV).
I've dug through WMEncoder9 and found tons of audio plugins that seem to have options to increase "gain" and other things but they all either crash the encoder, don't work, or refuse to enable. I've tried every one (boring day, tons of free time at work). It may be because of poor support for my laptop's integrated sound, but there's got to be a standard, compatible way to do it. I can simply seperate the streams using the Stream Editor tool, re-encode the audio and then make a new file without re-encoding if I simply knew how to raise the audio volume. I'd like to be able to do this when encoding in the first place also.
I often do Time Compression too so I can catch up on a lot of recordings in 75% of the time. If anyone can suggest a method that is compatible with this, all the better. :)
Most TV episodes synchronized from my Media Center PC to my Portable Media Center are WAY too low (volume). That said, any DVD I encode is 100% inaudible without headphones unless I process it with VirtualDub first and encode to an intermediary DivX/XviD/h.264 format (I can't bother with that... may as well just watch it on TV).
I've dug through WMEncoder9 and found tons of audio plugins that seem to have options to increase "gain" and other things but they all either crash the encoder, don't work, or refuse to enable. I've tried every one (boring day, tons of free time at work). It may be because of poor support for my laptop's integrated sound, but there's got to be a standard, compatible way to do it. I can simply seperate the streams using the Stream Editor tool, re-encode the audio and then make a new file without re-encoding if I simply knew how to raise the audio volume. I'd like to be able to do this when encoding in the first place also.
I often do Time Compression too so I can catch up on a lot of recordings in 75% of the time. If anyone can suggest a method that is compatible with this, all the better. :)