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Bug 345695 - support normalizing audio
support normalizing audio
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: general
1.4.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
: 348858 619342 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-06-22 22:16 UTC by pavel
Modified: 2012-04-23 17:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description pavel 2006-06-22 22:16:47 UTC 
totem shoudl normalizing audio tracks, since most DVDs are too quiet and/or differ a lot in their loudness.

also there should be support for replay_gain information on audio files - if there not already is. (have not checked this)
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-11-08 12:40:27 UTC 
*** Bug 348858 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 kimiko 2008-04-05 11:01:14 UTC 
This would be a useful feature. Movie files often have a very low default volume, requiring one to turn it up to (almost) maximum. If something else (pidgin or gtk/gnome for example) plays a sound effect after that, it'll blast your ears. So normalizing would be a good thing :)
Comment 3 Mustard 2009-12-05 02:26:02 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> This would be a useful feature. Movie files often have a very low default
> volume, requiring one to turn it up to (almost) maximum. If something else
> (pidgin or gtk/gnome for example) plays a sound effect after that, it'll blast
> your ears. So normalizing would be a good thing :)

I agree!
Comment 4 Philip Withnall 2010-05-22 09:16:16 UTC 
*** Bug 619342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2012-04-23 17:03:43 UTC 
Replay gain support should be added directly to playbin2, not in each application. And I'm not sure based upon what one would gauge the loudness of various movies. They're not as uniform as music can be, certainly.

For the "too loud" problem, the best way would be to get the "night mode" implemented in PulseAudio: http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/931