Volume too low in Boxee, Much louder with other apps

**taysan** · February 2nd, 2011, 10:33 PM

Thanks for posting this fix up - I did some searching (finally resorting to the Windows search function) to find the guisettings.xml file, which is in a totally different location on Windows installs.

Once I found it, I found the volume setting entry at -3160 and modified it to -200. Seems to have worked. We'll see if it lasts.

I might look at 'normalizing' the volume levels in my various video files, as there is still a lot of variance, but I no longer have to max out the volume on my receiver to hear shows, and then get blasted when playing content through VLC or other players.

I'm running a Windows machine with optical audio out to a receiver, for what it's worth. But none of that seems to be the issue - it's this oddball volume setting parameter.

**b.colborne** · February 6th, 2011, 10:35 AM

Naturally, video files will be at different volumes depending on the source you downloaded them from. Not much you can do about that with Boxee or any other player short of normalizing the audio for every single one of your videos. It's been some time now and my audio seems to be working wonderfully still since I tried this fix. Add to Boxee knowledge base?

**beer2007** · April 19th, 2011, 10:59 PM

TRY ANY VIDEO ON KMPLAYER, THEN TRY ON BOXEE. THERE IS NO COMPARISON. KMPLAYER VOLUME AND CLARITY BLOWS BOXEE AWAY.

THIS IS WITH ANY VIDEO. I HAVE TRIED ALL AUDIO CONFIGURATIONS ON BOXEE. WHEN SURROUND SOUND IS PRETTY IMPORTANT WITH ANY HOME THEATRE SETUP, I WONT SETTLE FOR SUB STANDARD QUALITY. BUT ILL REVISIT BOXEE FOR UPDATES, ALTHOUGH FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN, THESE ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN, WITH THEIR FOCUS APPARENTLY ON HARDWARE BOXES.I AM RUNNING BOXEE 0.9.23.15885 SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE WITH AUDIGY 2 SOUNDCARD.