It occurs to me that transcoded files play through the soundcard, whereas untranscoded ones play through the 350's outputs (and then through the soundcard). I wonder if there's some inconsistency there that's making transcoded files sound softer. I'll probably have to try playing some untranscoded files directly through mplayer, and then likewise with the transcoded ones; presumably then -both- cases will go through the ivtv framebuffer (and thus -only- out the soundcard w/o an intermediate step in the 350's outputs for the MPEG2 case), and that might tell me if it's really the case that the transcoded audio is quiet or there's some other step that's responsible.
Btw, alsamixer reports that my master is at 71% (where it's been since I got the machine); I upped center to 100%, capture to 94%, and IEC958 to 100% at some point in the past to get some other levels to work better, but it hasn't helped the transcoding case much. (Even if my master is too low, -all- audio is looped through the soundcard, so you'd think it would make the untranscoded stuff just as soft, but it doesn't---MP2 is soft, but MP4 is much softer, and they -both- go through the master, I believe.)
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