[MPlayer-users] Volume too loud in converted wav files

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/15/07, Jorge Fábregas <jfabregas at onelinkpr.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 15 April 2007 7:55 pm, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > And will this take care of the problem of sounds on the DVD being too
> > loud when converted to .wav files?
>
> No.  When you play the VOB file...does it sounds loud? You may need to use an
> audio filter to lower the sound. Try -af volume=8 (change the value
> accordingly).  This is only to lower the volume. If you have serious problems
> like audio clipping I guess there's no easy way to fix that (if it's on your
> original source).

Make sure your copy of mplayer doesn't have -af volnorm enabled by
default in a config file or something.

--Joey