sound difference in audiocious and vlc

[arshad3m]

hai guy,
my vlc player has more sound than audiocious. i mean the sound level.
why is this.
although the sound breaks often it has more than double fold of the sound in audiocious.
and help me why i cant play vids in vlc.


thank in advance.

[PabloTwo]

Hello-

I don't know about your audio level problem, but as for playing videos in vlc, do you have libdvdplay, ffmpeg and ffmpeg-libs installed from the livna repo? If not, install them and see if that helps matters.

[arshad3m]

i installed them as per your say bro, but still i cant play vids in vlc. it closes down in a sec
any idea??

thanks in advance

[pankajp]

If you can play pure audio files in vlc properly then it may have something to do with your video output settings in vlc. You may try to run it from command line and see if there is any error output. I once used to have segfaults in vlc, but that 2-3 fedora versions back
Also i've seen that vlc can make sound level much higher than most other players, and full volume in vlc is much higher than the speaker can tolerate.

[arshad3m]

how to check it in commmand line?
can you give me the code please.
thanks in advance.

[pankajp]

sorry for not following up

did u get it working...

As for running from commandline you can just try from a terminal
$ vlc /path/to/video.file

[arshad3m]

Originally Posted by pankajp

sorry for not following up

did u get it working...

As for running from commandline you can just try from a terminal
$ vlc /path/to/video.file

and im sorry for the late.
still no buddy,
only sound

[PabloTwo]

Originally Posted by arshad3m

my vlc player has more sound than audiocious. i mean the sound level.
why is this.
although the sound breaks often it has more than double fold of the sound in audiocious.

I just "solved" an audio volume level issue I was having. Whether this is relevant or not to your issue I can't say, but it's worth a look as it evolves audacious. My experience with vlc/audacious is that vlc has a noticeably lower volume level than audacious, but still plenty enough to adjust to whatever level I want.

My particular issue was with audacious while playing pysol (a solitaire card games program) which has sound effects enabled, and listening to music with audacious at the same time. It used to be that the sound volume levels from both apps were fairly balanced, but at some point, the sound from game was very much louder than the music level coming audacious. It was very annoying, especially since I always listen to audio from the computer using headphones.

I finally had enough of that and decided to investigate. In the preferences for audacious, one of the options is "Replay Gain". At some point in the past, I had enabled that (and quickly forgot about it). When I disabled Replay Gain, the volume levels when playing music in audacious went up, back to being balanced with the sound effects coming from pysol.

You might want to check if you have Replay Gain enabled in audacious or not.