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A simple feature I'd love to see is a configuration option to disable the volume controls (lock it to 100%).

Why?

To ensure that digital bit perfect output is preserved.

I believe that it is possible to configure bit perfect output in VLC (so that DTS etc works), but the volume must be fixed at 100%. If, by accident, it is moved, then the audio signal is degraded and no longer bit perfect. In the case of DTS, it is all or nothing. If you touch that volume control it will go from perfect audio to static. And once the volume has changed, there is no fast and easy way to reset to 100.

When using an external DAC or AV receiver, the ONLY thing you want coming out of the source is a bit perfect, clean audio stream. You don't want it messed with (resampled, dithered etc) at all! This is a growing area.. as more people are starting to work out they can use their computer as a source to feed their stereo or home theatre setup.

hope this can be considered for inclusion

Thanks

(also raised as ticket 6664)

VLC is easily THE best player. I've still got the early versions saved from when I started using it back in 2006! The volume boost feature was great to amplify some videos that had dodgy audio tracks, but I would agree that with the improving quality of sound files now, the feature is now becoming a hazard. I recently loaned my PA gear, running VLC. Eventually the party discovered they could increase the sound levels using VLC, well above the PA and PC settings. It cost $700 to recone one of my speakers after the distortion melted the coils. There needs to be a way to limit the volume to 100%. It makes VLC too dangerous to use on a large audio system..

Please create a method to reign in the volume levels...