[ecopsorn]

Hey there

Since I've upgraded to Gotham, the sound volume for everything I play is much lower than before. I haven't changed any settings. I have to crank up my speaker extremely just to hear to movie normally.
The only thing I can do is going to the audio options of the individual movie and raise the decibel by 8-10.

Does anybody know why this could be the case or how I can set the volume louder again on all movies just as it was with Frodo?

I don't want to manually change the decibel for each movie.

[Ned Scott]

XBMC -> Settings -> System -> Audio output -> enable "Normalize levels on downmix"

[ecopsorn]

XBMC -> Settings -> System -> Audio output -> enable "Normalize levels on downmix"

I didn't find the option first because I use the Aeon Nox skin, somehow I can't switch to advanced mode yet with that skin.


After changing to confluence, I unfortunately saw that the "Normalize levels on downmix" option was already enabled.
Any other ideas?

[Ned Scott]

Hmm, not sure

[DBMandrake]

XBMC -> Settings -> System -> Audio output -> enable "Normalize levels on downmix"

I didn't find the option first because I use the Aeon Nox skin, somehow I can't switch to advanced mode yet with that skin.


After changing to confluence, I unfortunately saw that the "Normalize levels on downmix" option was already enabled.
Any other ideas?

Normalize levels on downmix should be disabled for louder volume, not enabled. (This is opposite to Frodo)

It also only affects audio that is downmixed to stereo (as the description suggests) so if you're using AC3/DTS pass through it won't affect those.

[Ned Scott]

I guess it depends on what is going on in the audio track. It seems louder to me when I'm listening to just characters talking, or some light background music. Everything gets slightly compressed, though, both above and below a certain point, if I understand correctly.