AC3 Normalization?

[rendez2k]

Is there a tool that will normalize the sound levels for a bunch of AC3 files? Many thanks.

[shon3i]

BeHappy, but you must recompress ac3.

[rendez2k]

Looks good but I can't get it to work with AC3 or MP2 files. I get a number of errors such as "Error: System.ApplicationException: Can't start encoder: The system cannot find the file specified ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified" with ffmpeg or "Error: System.IO.IOException: The pipe has been ended." with aften. Any other ideas?

[BigDid]

Looks good but I can't get it to work with AC3 or MP2 files. I get a number of errors such as "Error: System.ApplicationException: Can't start encoder: The system cannot find the file specified ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified" with ffmpeg or "Error: System.IO.IOException: The pipe has been ended." with aften. Any other ideas?
Hi,

Behappy is very picky... You could try the package created by Shon3i (seems still active): http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=889012#post889012

For normalizing you will have to select NicAc3Source (DRC) as source

After that, if still problems, give the settings in/out and processing filters used to narrow the problem...

HNY
Did

[tebasuna51]

After install the Shon3i package don't forget the more news:
- NicAudio.dll (http://nic.dnsalias.com/NicAudio_alpha3.zip) at ...\Avisynth 2.5\Plugins folder
- Aften-0.05_rev216 (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/index.php?dir=Aften/) at ...\BeHappy folder

[rendez2k]

Arh! I think that may have worked. Is there recommended amount for normalization - is 100% OK?

[BoNeCrUsHeR]

Hi,

Behappy is very picky... You could try the package created by Shon3i (seems still active): http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=889012#post889012

For normalizing you will have to select NicAc3Source (DRC) as source

After that, if still problems, give the settings in/out and processing filters used to narrow the problem...

HNY
Did

Error: System.IO.IOException: The pipe has been ended.

Just something I have noticed (After countless trial and error with this (BEHAPPY) and other programs that can use aften).

Newer versions of AFTEN want the .wav (stdin (-) for BEHAPPY) to come first, and BEHAPPY (current version as of this post), still has the old command line style of .wav coming later in AFTEN line. So I advise to use an older version of AFTEN with BEHAPPY. (It will probably be updated soon I would imagine as this isn't a major/hard bug to fix?) THis is pretty much a re-hash of what was said above, but at least you know why a newer AFTEN might have problems with BEHAPPY(current).

-bC :confused: