[mythtv-users] What controls the volume level in a recording?

Patrick Doyle wpdster at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 11:45:05 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> Patrick Doyle wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Justin Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 08:56 -0400, Don Brett wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I noticed that some recordings play back louder than others as if they
>>>>>> were recorded louder.  My old mythtv box and the new one seem
>>>>>> different
>>>>>> and downloaded content is definitely different.  What controls the
>>>>>> recorded volume level?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The advertisers.  :-D
>>>>>
>>>>> b.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> You're probably right.
>>>
>>
>> Many years ago (oh dear, I think I might even be able to say "many
>> decades ago") I was friends with a fellow who worked at an Armed
>> Forces TV station in Japan.  He claimed (although, knowing him, he
>> could have made this up) that he used to turn down the modulation
>> volume to about 30% on the Saturday morning cartoons from 6am until
>> 8am, anticipating that all the kids watching the cartoons would turn
>> up the volume on their television sets just to hear the Road Runner go
>> beep beep!  (I warned you, this was many decades ago).  Then, at 8am,
>> he'd turn it back to 100% so that all the TV's on the base would
>> suddenly start blaring out "I tawt I taw a puddy cat!" at full volume.
>>
>> Of course, he may have been pulling my leg :-)
>>
>> --wpd
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>
> That's a great story...and I believe every word!  But isn't the correct
> pronunciation "puddy tat"?
>
You are absolutely right.  I was never that great at spellnig.

--wpd


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