[mythtv-users] differing volume levels

Robin Neatherway robthebob at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 14:03:36 UTC 2007


On 6/5/07, jason maxwell <decepticon at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm passing all audio through SPDIF and it works beautifully. I'm using the
> internal player for pretty much everything right now. I'm wondering though,
> what's the best way for me to deal with the differing volume levels between
> TV, and videos? My wife and I keep forgetting to lower the volume when
> firing up a video, and we jump out of our skin as we quickly fumble for the
> pause and volume buttons on the remote.
>
> Since I'm using passthrough, and my reciever is setting the volume, I cant
> set it lower just for videos in myth, can I? There's no normalizing
> compression feature of some sort that I'm overlooking, is there? How do
> other's cope with this?
> Thanks
> -J

Good question, this also affects me. If myth is outputting to the alsa
digital device, I would be surprised if there wasn't a way of
configuring that to handle something like this.

Robin


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