5.1 to 2.0 downmixing helps this A LOT.
My TV has only 2.0 but almost all movies on Jellyfin are 5.1 or 7.1. Thankfully there are a few plugins that downmix multi-channel audio to stereo making watching experience a lot more better. Doesn’t work perfectly, but way better than without.
Now, I want some sort of a browser-wide plugin if there is one. Sometimes I do watch yarr streaming sites that also have audio in 5.1. Is there anything like this?
btw you can select this in gnome settings -> sound -> configuration.
also, if it’s mono and you hear it only on one side of the headphones, you can fix it best using the balance setting of your player, so the rest of the system will be unaffected.
Whispers and explosions.
I think the root of the problem is a lot of us are rocking the factory built-in stereo speakers on whatever set we have, including laptops, and basic headphones on everything else. The right answer is to run audio through some other bit of software or hardware to downmix surround to two channels, and/or apply a compressor. But none of that is stock or made at all clear as something the typical home-gamer is supposed to do. So we’re left with media that is struggling to deliver an experience on hardware that just isn’t built for it.
Directed by Christopher Nolan.
Compression is your friend. In whatever form it is available on your setup.
I was thinking, that this is a problem for stereo setups, because movies are mixed for 5.1/7.1
Was thinking to get a soundbar, but if I can fix this in a configuration on the TV, that would be cheaper.
What should I look for?
I’ve already played around with different audio options on the TV, but it didn’t really help - or was better for one movie, but not for the next thing…Yup the .1 setups make it horrible without any form of mixing. If you can’t enable some “night-mode” or “dialogue enhancer” or just a plain mixer, you’re pretty screwed with “cinema sound”.
I usually just take headphones then, so wifey doesn’t have to endure my 3d sound and it really eases it.
If stuck with some tv-setup, I’d maybe use a raspberry as input with kodi on it or something like that. There you can. Soundbar depends on the features. Like above, however each manficaturer calls them
Yeah, well…
It’s currently about my wife and me too understand things, when we’re laid out on the couch
So, there is no real center position or the real possibility of us both wearing headphones.
It just can’t be, that movies aren’t made to be consumed on a local TV (rofl, auto correct wanted to make THC out of it ;-))
Anyway, there must be a solution to consume current media somehow, and still understand the probability miserable dialogues, while still being able to allow for effects of a bomb, without alarming my neighboursFor real now, who the fuck has the setup and possibilities to actually follow a current movie?
Understandable. I rarely use the TV, we have a cinema-room with beamer and speakers to eliminate this nasty problem.
If only the TV, you could still install kodi there to watch your stuff with some compression. Or some other app. If you can’t install anything, then you’re stuck with external speakers that offer that.
I already have Kodi on my media server - although currently it’s…under construction
Hmm…not sure, if I had the same problem there.
Will need to revive it anyway.Thanks for the input :-)
I have a pretty nice soundbar setup, but dialogue volume is still really low for many sources – it’s just mixed that way. Soundbar may not be a real solution.
I don’t want to compress or have to do trickery :( Usually we put subtitles on as a temp fix
Uff, thanks for the input, but that sucks
Was hoping for rather simple fix, because current movies aren’t actually watchable at home
Even in the cinema, the sound effects are turned up to 11, and sometimes the actors still whisper and can be hardly understoodAt least most blockbusters don’t even have a real story to follow anyway…
Subtitles, comrades. Subtitles.
If I wanna read a book, I’d read a book 😉
Not even joking, that’s a common response from illiterate adults
Haha. So funny. But imagine there might be people hating subs. Like me. I can only watch German and English without, so for other originals I often HAVE to resort to them and it kills a lot of the experience for me. Incredible to imagine for such an evolved brain like yours, but …
Incredible to imagine for such an evolved brain like yours
Like I said I wasn’t joking, and I wasn’t calling you illiterate. I was simply pointing out a common excuse the illiterate use to avoid embarrassment.
I have not met someone illiterate here. Far from even being able to notice a common masking.
Now with my hyperacusis its fucking torture. I hear the dialogue even worse cause if someones talking even whispering while im watching the movie, or theyre eating snacks, or anything else that produces sound, i cant hear shit. And then when it goes into the loud scene after not understanding shit from the dialogue its suddenly tine for literal physical pain my ears.
We have a center speaker for that. In the AV receiver we set it to be louder in relation to the other speakers; that helped in a lot of movies and did not hurt the immersion of the movie.
Now, why do most male actors mumble so much?
For anyone using MPV (assuming you do not have any other dynamic range compression already)
add this line toinput.conf
Ctrl+= af toggle "lavfi=[loudnorm=i=-22:lra=4]" ; show-text "${af}"This bind
Ctrl+=to toggle loudnorm filterYou can set it as aggressive as you like
