[mythtv-users] High Volume during commercials

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 17, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Jorge Bianquetti de las Heras wrote:

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>>> This sort of thing can be very difficult to detect and/or control
>>> without an actual human in the loop.
>>>
>>> I seriously doubt is there is any truly effective way to automate
>>> a solution to this problem, at least not at consumer prices.
>>
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> Why not use a software audio compressor/limiter on audio output chain?

I don't think a compressor/limiter will do it.  I think the problem  
is the commercial audio is already heavily compressed to make it  
sound "louder" with the same peak level.

You'd have to compute the average level, I think, instead of just  
limiting the peaks.