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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2015-03-30 19:44:52 +0200
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ad_lavc: disable AC3 DRC by default
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``--ad-lavc-ac3drc=<level>``
Select the Dynamic Range Compression level for AC-3 audio streams.
``<level>`` is a float value ranging from 0 to 1, where 0 means no
- compression and 1 (which is the default) means full compression (make loud
- passages more silent and vice versa). Values up to 2 are also accepted, but
+ compression (which is the default) and 1 means full compression (make loud
+ passages more silent and vice versa). Values up to 6 are also accepted, but
are purely experimental. This option only shows an effect if the AC-3 stream
contains the required range compression information.
+ The standard mandates that DRC is enabled by default, but mpv (and some
+ other players) ignore this for the sake of better audio quality.
+
``--ad-lavc-downmix=<yes|no>``
Whether to request audio channel downmixing from the decoder (default: yes).
Some decoders, like AC-3, AAC and DTS, can remix audio on decoding. The