[MPlayer-dev-eng] third hectoliter this day

[Jens Lautenbacher]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 19:39, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> why no way to *increase* the volume? i think that's normally what's
> desired. with lots of dvds and dvd rips, the volume is way too low,
> and adjusting the soundcard's mixer settings adds lots of hissing. the
> problem is really that the sample values being sent to the sound care
> are way too low, and need to be scaled up.
> 
> of course, then there's the issue of the occasional insanely loud
> sound which might clip and sound awful. i would think the best way of
> dealing with this would be to use some sort of logarithmic or better
> yet asymptotic scale as sample values approach the maximum, so that
> they'd just distort (similar perhaps to a tube amp?) rather than
> clipping. thoughts anyone? perhaps something like this should be a
> separate plugin, e.g. "amp" rather than "software volume control"..?

I think you want a compressor plugin.
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