common complaint about movie audio is ‘the speech is too quiet and the action is too loud’. this can be resolved with dynamic range compression or normalization. ffmpeg provides a normalization filter called dynaudnorm which u can use in mpv via --af=“dynaudnorm”.
When I finally got a center channel in my audio setup, suddenly dialog/speech was no longer too quiet. Game changer.
This was about to be my response. Sometimes, when a 5.1 surround mix is forced into stereo output, it causes the ‘speech’ channel to sound quieter than it should.
Try sticking to non-surrounds sources OP if you don’t have surround setup
Yes this has always been annoying with videos in Linux. Pipewire seems to be better about it and there are ways to mitigate it
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tutorial-volume-normalization-on-pipewire/22315
Not sure I follow, I don’t think this problem is inherent to Linux. Just the solution described uses Linux.
Other operating systems have more system wide optimizations to compensate for audio normalization
VLC has pretty solid normalization settings.
How?
Does anyone know of a way to make this work with Jellyfin?
you can use ffmpeg to apply the filter to the file itself and then just distribute the result
thanks i’ll try it out if I remember to
i got very annoyed
