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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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 Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: Low Audio from Downloaded Torrents |
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Ok, another torrent question - sometimes a movie I've downloaded has really low audio - so much so sometimes I have to delete it and do another one.
any comments as to something I can do about this? I've tried every possible way to adjust the volume and concluded it's the file itself - but why would that happen? |
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eddie1983man
Joined: 31 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| low bitrate nothing you do about it but find a better one. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| uh, sorry, am not understanding - is this something I can determine when I choose to download the file? |
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eddie1983man
Joined: 31 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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are you downloading from torrents? or p2p like limewire, kazaa, etc....?
torrent descriptions usually say the audio bitrate in the description look for cbr or vbr. anything around 200 should sound decent, anything around 300 is great quality.
i sometime use limewire and it shows the bitrate in the far right column of the listing. around 200 or higher is good. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| eddie1983man wrote: |
are you downloading from torrents? or p2p like limewire, kazaa, etc....?
torrent descriptions usually say the audio bitrate in the description look for cbr or vbr. anything around 200 should sound decent, anything around 300 is great quality.
i sometime use limewire and it shows the bitrate in the far right column of the listing. around 200 or higher is good. |
Bitrate has nothing to do with how LOUD the volume is.
To the OP: I haven't run into this problem very often. My advice would be to read the comments section of the torrent you are downloading. If the volume is low, you may find some people report it there. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
| eddie1983man wrote: |
are you downloading from torrents? or p2p like limewire, kazaa, etc....?
torrent descriptions usually say the audio bitrate in the description look for cbr or vbr. anything around 200 should sound decent, anything around 300 is great quality.
i sometime use limewire and it shows the bitrate in the far right column of the listing. around 200 or higher is good. |
Bitrate has nothing to do with how LOUD the volume is.
To the OP: I haven't run into this problem very often. My advice would be to read the comments section of the torrent you are downloading. If the volume is low, you may find some people report it there. |
yeah, I can't imagine why it would effect it either.
I rarely look at the comments and as for where I download from, I use various ones, depending on who has the file and the number of seeders. It doesn't happen often, but has happened now a few times and I'm very curious as to how I can prevent it if possible.
I'm wondering if it's a glitch in the way it was uploaded so I may not be able to do anything about it? |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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What player are you using? I find that some files which have no sound, or a bad picture, can look perfect in another player.
Between VLC Player and Windows Media Classic you should be fine. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| samd wrote: |
What player are you using? I find that some files which have no sound, or a bad picture, can look perfect in another player.
Between VLC Player and Windows Media Classic you should be fine. |
that's interesting
most I dwnld these days seem to be playing on Real Player; am not familiar with VLC but will check it out - I use a Mac so no WMC but sometimes Quicktime; sometimes DIVX (?) or something like that. |
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teachingld2004
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: sound |
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| This sounds silly, but perhaps you need better speakers? |
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superdave
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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regarding audio quality, demonoid does categorise audio files into mp3 quality, flac, ogg, etc ...
so when you are browsing audio, check the file quality before downloading. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:24 am Post subject: Re: sound |
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| teachingld2004 wrote: |
| This sounds silly, but perhaps you need better speakers? |
you're right it does sound silly 
especially when I said it doesn't always happen - why on earth would it have anything to do w/my speakers?
fyi, I listen to a multitude of programs, radio, special broadcasts, never have any problems whatsoever, just on the occasion of a downloaded film torrent and even then, maybe 1 out of 5? not a lot....but enough to be annoying.
if you don't have an answer, let it go already, it doesn't mean it's my fault!! for christ's sake already!! |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| superdave wrote: |
regarding audio quality, demonoid does categorise audio files into mp3 quality, flac, ogg, etc ...
so when you are browsing audio, check the file quality before downloading. |
yeah, I've started doing this already when downloading this weekend - and will do it from now on - for whatever reason, am not sure why but something somewhere is making a difference.
I'm pretty convinced it has to do with the uploading. if something has to give, maybe it's the audio that does. |
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Whitey Otez
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: The suburbs of Seoul
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:12 am Post subject: |
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A general rule for movies - anything that says ac3 usually has ultra-high quality sound but extremely low volume. I generally bypass this by jacking up the equalizer on WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. Yeah, I use WMP, what of it?
In general, I hate that volume levels fluctuate, especially within a movie or torrent. |
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wormholes101
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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I know exactly what you mean. As someone said it might be to do with the the audio codec...
I just turn up the sound on the external speakers. |
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