[mythtv-users] Am I on crack

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:35:36AM -0400, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> >  > 1.  Per tuner volume controls.
> > Anyway, there's work afoot to get volume normalization into Myth,
> 
> Excellent. Hopefully it will be implemented across the board, not just
> in recorded TV. For me, playing music CDs is by far the loudest, HDTV
> is way quieter, and SD TV somewhere in between. Not really sure where
> DVDs fall in there. Then theres the occasional episode I download
> where the audio is so quiet I can max out the volume on my TV and
> still strain to hear it. Of course, I realize theres only so much you
> can do with very quiet audio (s/n ratio), but anything would help.

There's a common screwup in digital audio design...

Most digital audio systems treat -20dBFS as 0vu, and aim for that as
the highest average level.  Unfortunately, they then put it out as
*-20dBM*, not as 0dBM, which is what they *should* do if it's really
0vu.

It's so common that I have to assume someone thinks it's the right
thing to do, but it's *really* not.  I promise.

Cheers,
-- jra
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