Problem increasing volume

[mattstan]

Hi,

I've got a DVD which has way too low sound levels and inappropriate levels, whereby the narrator is barely audible even with the TV volume on max and sometimes it's even worse when music is played.

I've extaracted the m2v and ac3 files using vobedit and used this command for besweet:

BeSweet -core(
-input "J:\Working\TDM.ac3"
-output "J:\Working\TDM_MAX_HEAVY.wav"
-6chwav )
-azid( -g max -c heavy )

Thinking this will increase the volume and make the sound extremes closer together (voice louder / music lower) and it seems to have worked with the wav. However when I convert the wav back to ac3 using the command below it sounds pretty much the same as it did in the first place.

BeSweet -core(
-input "J:\Working\TDM_MAX_HEAVY.wav"
-output "J:\Working\TDM_MAX_HEAVY.ac3" )
-ac3enc( -b 448 -6ch )

Am I do something wrong? Please advise.

Thanks.

[ricardo.santos]

this is how i would do it.

demux the dvd to m2v and wav, load wav into audacity and select normalize save as wav again, load the normalized wav into ffmpegui and save it as ac3 .

use muxman to multilex the ac3 andm2v.

sorry not a beweet solution, only answered because no 1 replied to you.

hope it helps