How to increase the volume for an avi file

Question

I have one or two .avi files for which the sound is simply too low. I like to play them in vlc, and enabling the graphic equalizer helps somewhat, but is there any other (easy and quick!) way of increasing the volume? Thanks!

Answer 1

You could use VirtualDub for this. This guide has a short and straight-forward explanation.

Brief:

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1. Start VirtualDub and load in your converted DivX file.
2. From the "Video" menu, select "Direct Stream Copy".
3. From the "Audio" menu, select "Full Processing Mode".
4. From the "Audio" menu, select "Volume", check the "Adjust volume of audio channels" option, and you can use the slider to change the level of audio.
5. Press the "Preview Output" button and listen to the audio - if it isn't loud enough, go back to the previous step and increase the amplification level.
6. From the "Audio" menu, select "Compression" and select "MPEG Layer-3" and the same or lower bitrate/attributes (eg. 128 kBit/s, 48000 Hz, Stereo) you used earlier to make the DivX movie.
7. From the "File" menu, select "Save AVI" to save the AVI to include the normalized audio. This shouldn't take too long as only the audio is re-encoded/compressed - the video will be left alone.

Answer 2

Very easy to do using ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i myvideo.avi -vcodec copy -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k -vol 5000 myvideo_louder.avi

Adjust the "-vol" parameter until you're satisfied with the volume.

While you're looking for the appropriate "-vol" value, I suggest you add a "-t 30" to your commandline, so it'll only process the first 30s of video. It's much faster and should be enough for you to evaluate the results.

Answer 3

Look at this question: How to amplify the audio in a video file?

Quoted answer by Davy Landman:

You'll need to do this in following steps.

1. Demux (extract) the audio stream from the container, depending on your container you should use the correct application. For a general purpose demuxer you could use ffmpeg. But there are more user friendly programs such as VirtualDub for avi, TMPGEnc for mpg files.
2. Decode the audio to a wave file (not always needed if Audacity can open the file directly)
3. Increase the volume of your audio track using Audacity by gaining your audio file such as described in the first step in this howto.
4. Save the result as a wave file.
5. Encode the wave file using the right tool for your desired audio coded (lame for mp3, faac for aac)
6. Remux the new audio and original video tracks back into the desired container using the same program you used for demuxing.

Answer 4

VLC enables you to increase the volume up to 400% by holding down CTRL + UP ARROW.

Answer 5

VLC has a bar that lets you up the volume to 200% of original, at least in Windows it does. Try using that, other than the EQ.

It might take a bit longer and only run in batches, but VirtualDub has a way to take a avi file and increase the volume level on it too.