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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone tell me why I'm an idiot: streaming services have access to the entire video you're about to watch. They know the max and the min volume of that video. Why is there no setting to shrink that range? Is it going to degrade the audio really bad and they don't want to be blamed?

This goes double for home theater software like Jellyfin, Kodi, and Plex. They have 10,000 customizations and settings, so why can't I define my own custom audio range in them?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Technically speaking it's very easy to implement, it's just a compressor, oldest thing in audio after maybe the EQ.

    VLC has a compressor under effects, if you're using Linux you can add effects to pulse or pipewire really easy too.

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