DVD Audio Low Volume?

[Jonny M]

For some reason my DVDs (Using PowerDVD 5) are really low volume. I can't see anything obvious on the SoundStorm mixer, and the volume in the program is set to 100%. When I rip the DVDs, the rip plays at a much higher (normal) volume.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[MurphmanL]

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[unrealrocks]

This is normal.

Its due to the audio on the DVD being AC3 Dolby Digtal (or DTS) encoded, the whole idea for this audio formats is to get better quality, not only frequency range but also audio range - this makes voices quite quiet although explosoins using the full range.

Also make sure you have the right number of speakers selected for your setup.