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I've got to crank my speakers up almost all the way to hear a song. When I play a video I can't hear anything and I notice that the "Volume Amplification" slider bar is at 0, all the way to the left. I can crank that and the sound goes up. But it is set per video. There has got to be a system wide setting for "Voluem Amplification" But I can't find it. Please direct me to this setting.
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Something is wrong with your setup.
Anyways - set it and then select "Set as default for all movies" just below where you set it.
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"Something is wrong with your setup." - I wouldnt' doubt that I broke something while troubleshooting my sound card issues. How do I fix it?
"set it and then select "Set as default for all movies" just below where you set it. " - Will that fix my music sound issue as well?
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If it's low volume in both music and movies then yeah, somethings wrong with your setup. My crystal ball is a little hazy on the info required to troubleshoot your system in general though.
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This is an xbmc live install to hard drive. The sound on this thing never did work right. I've got another post somewhere on this forum where I couldn't get the on board sound card to work. I can't seem to find that thread though. I put a PCI sound card in and it worked but with the problems described above.
Oddly enough, this latest time I booted it up (to do the "set as default for all" thing) I'm back to having no sound again. I think maybe I need to re-install.
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you might want to try out xbmcbuntu over xbmc live...that way you get the benefits of ubuntu
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oh,.. sorry. I thought they were the same thing. I am using xbmcubuntu.
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bobo1on1
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The soundcard volume is probably set too slow, you can change that with the XBMC audio mixer addon.
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reinstalled OS and sound is back again. I then did the set for all movies thing, and then movified the audio mizer settings for the music. (In previous install, I launched the mixer and it had no controls in there) Sound is all good now. Now I gotta reconfigure my xbox remote.
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2012-06-01, 18:01
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-01, 18:04 by digitaltomj.)
hmmm...I guess you need to post a fourm up on the ubuntu site too just to cover your bases...ive never used a remote on my ubuntu...but are you using a wired xbox controller, a wireless controller, or a xbox dvd remote?
...I wonder if the dvd remote uses a regular IR signal or the 2.5 signal
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Since this topic has the most appropriate title..
Could someone tell me:
1/ Why is the 'Volume Amplification' function so weirdly designed, UI wise. I get that what you're doing is "amplify by <x> dB, then dynamically compress" thereby achieving the result, but why not just call it Dynamic Range Compression or 'Night Mode' or something since this is much clearer what it does?
2/ What is an actually good setting for this? Like most non-rich people I cant (socially) afford to have explosions boom at full volume.. I have noticed that I personally jockey my stereo from "-10dB" during quiet talking scenes to "-22dB" during asplosions, so would -12dB be a good starting point or am I misunderstanding something?
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bobo1on1
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You have a good understanding of what it does, so what's the problem?