Check that the audio format of whatever you’re watching matches the output of your listening device. If you watch a movie using 5.1, but your TV is stereo, then yes all of the loud shit is going to be very loud and crowd out the dialog. This might not be the silver bullet for everyone, but it costs you nothing to check your settings.
What would be the solution if the movie is using 5.1 and my TV only has stereo? What would be the correct setting?
Use stereo for the movie. Some apps, like Netflix (iirc) has a setting for that.
Only works if the original media has multiple mixes. Some stuff made for the small screen does, but very few films go through the process of doing separate audio mixes.
Some TVs have a virtualization option that can help.
Audio engineers during the black and white talkies had so much more skill than modern ones.
Isn’t there a thing where the player itself knows when the audio will go very high and thus reduce the amplitude? Maybe something called Stable Sound.
Or best is if we can seperate background noise, dialogues and other sounds and the engine work with that, idk.
VLC has a Volume Normalization setting which everyone should turn on. Helps dramatically with the plethora of badly mixed movies.
Have you tried plugging it in and then plugging it in again? My cat is a literal fat ass and will eat anything.
