videos too quiet on ipod from handbreak or visualhub!

crunchiespg · Sep 16th, 2008, 10:29 AM

just got my new ipod touch 2g...

now youtube videos when played using the built in speaker are fine and loud enough. but movies i have taken from DVD using handbrake and TV shows i converted from xvid with visualhub are too quiet.. i can hardly hear them, and would be useless for showing friends unless we were in a totally silent area.. even with the headphones ive got it on nearly max volume.

is there anyway i can make the videos louder when i import them?
thanks

kb244 · Sep 16th, 2008, 10:58 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by crunchiespg
	just got my new ipod touch 2g... now youtube videos when played using the built in speaker are fine and loud enough. but movies i have taken from DVD using handbrake and TV shows i converted from xvid with visualhub are too quiet.. i can hardly hear them, and would be useless for showing friends unless we were in a totally silent area.. even with the headphones ive got it on nearly max volume. is there anyway i can make the videos louder when i import them? thanks

I thought the new ones with the volume control on side and built in speakers are the iPod Touch 3rd Generation. Not second (I have a second).

Also if you seen the keynotes Jobs mentioned the built in speakers were only for 'casual' listening he even emphasized this in his voice I guess as a means of expressing they're far from being perfect for all uses.

By the way if only the rips are too quite (rips you're doing yourself), then you are perhaps not correctly encoding/converting the video accurately. Its possible that you're only encoding the center channel out of a 5.1 surround AC3 file, and if so you need to downsample the 5.1 channels into 2 channels to get ALL of the audio converted.

That's one possibility, also do "Get Info" on your video imports into itunes and see what their decibal levels are set to, since you can customize a song or video or such to have a higher internal volume setting than others. (volume adjustment in this manner can go from -100% to +100%)

crunchiespg · Sep 16th, 2008, 11:27 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by kb244
	I thought the new ones with the volume control on side and built in speakers are the iPod Touch 3rd Generation. Not second (I have a second). Also if you seen the keynotes Jobs mentioned the built in speakers were only for 'casual' listening he even emphasized this in his voice I guess as a means of expressing they're far from being perfect for all uses. By the way if only the rips are too quite (rips you're doing yourself), then you are perhaps not correctly encoding/converting the video accurately. Its possible that you're only encoding the center channel out of a 5.1 surround AC3 file, and if so you need to downsample the 5.1 channels into 2 channels to get ALL of the audio converted. That's one possibility, also do "Get Info" on your video imports into itunes and see what their decibal levels are set to, since you can customize a song or video or such to have a higher internal volume setting than others. (volume adjustment in this manner can go from -100% to +100%)

no the volume controls are on the 2G ipod touch. check apple.com.. thats what they call them. yours was just a software upgrade to the original ipod touch..

the speaker is loud enough, thats not the problem as when i watch youtube videos on it they are really loud.. but just my own videos are much quieter.

i dont think its the 5.1 issue, as most are just normal tv shows for a bit torrent site. which were not 5.1 to start with...

ill try the volume adjust in itunes. thanks.