Chris, Another thing you may want to consider aside from what Ricardo suggested, related to the level of iTunes volume, is potential lead the way that the video was encoded, I don't know much about video encoding, but I'm sure that VLC has alternative decoders, that may be able to handle the audio better than iTunes. i personally never use iTunes for video watching, and always have VLC on hand if I need to watch a video. Just a suggestion, oh yeah, and how is the audio using QuickLook, by pressing the on the file in the finder? Michael
On Tuesday, May 21, 2013, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > is iTunes volume turned up as well as system volume? iTunes volume can be > adjusted by command up and down arrow. > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] <javascript:;> > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On May 21, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Chris Gilland" > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > OK, I'm quite an advanced Mac user, having had my macbook for now just > over 2 years, plus playing with mac systems long before that, plus having > my mac mini now for just over 3 months, and this month giving my mother a > mac mini for her birthday, so yeah... that should be saying something, but, > I confess guilty as charged, this is driving me nuts! I can't faddum this > at all! So here's the situation I'm facing. I have an MP4 video file of > Rescue 9 1 1 which I downloaded. due to legality reasons, I'm not gonna > reveal from where, but the bottom line is, if I play the file in VLC, I can > crank the level way up and get it to almost a comfortable level, but if I > bring up the video on either ITunes, Quicktime, Quicklook, or my Apple TV > 3rd generation and try playing it, the picture quality is perfectly fine, > but the audio level is extremely! and I do mean, extremely! quiet! Even > turning off Itune's audio enhancer isn't helping. No, I do not have sound > check enabled. It's totally weird! as I can crank it way up in vlc, and it > sounds great! but if I put it through Itunes, even turned all the way up, > it's only about literally! 35 to 40 percent as loud as it was in VLC. This > is totally! crazy! I can't even for the remote life a me! put any logic > together of why on earth it's doing this! > > > > I suppose I could knock the thing into ProTools, and pop that level on > the audio side of things up a bit, but that still! doesn't really resolve > the problem in a whole. Frankly, this shouldn't be happening in general, I > wouldn't think. > > > > Chris. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:;>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javascript:;> > . > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:;>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:;> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
