According to this comment it seems that VLC could boost the audio volume up to 800% in the past versions. Today I installed VLC multimedia player version 2.0.5 and it is capable only to boost up to 200%! This is not much, considering that some youtube videos are very quiet. This is what I need VLC for – to boost up volume for quiet youtube videos.
So, where's the problem? Was it actually 800% in the past? Did VLC really limit this from former 800% to current 200%? Is it possible to somehow achieve more boost with VLC? Or with other software? I am using Windows 7.
Best Answer
Update: the previously suggested
--volumeargument no longer works.In more recent versions of VLC, you may adjust volume manually via commandline parameter:
The value is documented in
--help --advancedto be a float in range of[0.000000 .. 8.000000], but test show that higher, even much higher values are also accepted (tested up to few thousands).The gain value is independent of volume value, eg. regardless of the gain value and effective volume, the in-application volume will show as
100%or any other preset value.The argument is as of this moment not defined in the manual.
Example: