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Do you have the problem when watching movies that the voice is too low? What do you do about it?

Usually I just turn the volume up, but then when I get sound effects (gun shots for example) I need to quickly lower it down.

I was wondering why isn't there a simple filter that would limit the max volume level? It would mean that I can put the volume on max, but each frequency that would go beyond the threshold would be truncated to the threshold. That would mean that I could put a low voice movie on max volume, but when there would be a gunshot, the filter would limit its volume to the proper decibels which I specified. What do you think?

The normvol audio filter is supposed to do that. But it looks more like you have configured 5.1 output on a stereo system...

I'm not sure what

it looks more like you have configured 5.1 output on a stereo system

means. My standard computer speakers are connected to my sound card, and I use VLC on default settings (didn't touch it, since I installed it). There are these problematic movies, and probably it's a codec problem or some lame audio compression.

Anyway I tried starting vlc with:

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --audio-filter normvol --norm-max-level 0.5

I'm not sure if this magic line did anything, and I can't find just now a problematic movie from the type I described to test it. Is there some gui indication for this filter, such as in Tools > Effects and filters ?

And just to be sure, what this normvol should do again?

Thanks, I just found:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=91355

and will try on next problematic movie.