I've got a large amount of .MKV video files which seem to all play at a very low volume – I end up having to turn the TV up all the way to hear them, which is really irritating when I switch to another channel and wake the dead because it's so loud.
What I'm looking for is a command-line method to increase the volume (so I can run it on all of them quickly) that would hopefully work regardless of the audio codec in use in the particular file. (I don't mind hard-coding the output audio though).
For reference, I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 on my server, and the files are being played back with Boxee on a Mac Mini, but the volume problem is the same on Windows too.
Best Answer
It isn't very well documented, but FFmpeg has a
-vol
switch which will allow you to increase volume output.Example:
Some things to take note of:
-vol
switch uses "byte percent", so you can't just specify a 200% volume increase, 100% = 256 so specifying 256 would leave the volume as is, 512 would double it and so on.