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placeybordeaux

Member

Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 5

Flash audio levels are all over the place

Some videos are so quiet that I can not hear it even turning everything up to 100% and then some after that are so loud I am worried I will blow out my speakers by accident. Not sure where to go from here.

sys env:

flashplugin-11.2.202.346-1

.asoundrc

pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}
ctl.!default {
      type hw
      card 1
      device 3
 }
pcm.!default {
      type hw
      card 1
      device 3
 }

supermariolinux

Member

Registered: 2014-01-21

Posts: 11

Re: Flash audio levels are all over the place

First you should try setting up a system wide equalizer, you can read the ALSA or PulseAudio Article. Next you may be interested in Dynamic range compression to help amplify quiet sounds and compress and soften louder sounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression

You can use LADSPA plugins to accomplish this,  install ladpsa and swh-plugins, you will then need to set up the dyson compress plugin. this thread should be able to help you: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99185
this site as well if you are using pulseaudio: https://www.bfccomputing.com/dynamic-ra … ulseaudio/

Last edited by supermariolinux (2014-04-06 08:25:27)