PropDad | 8 points
First I do want to say I really appreciate everyone who uploads here. I mainly come here for movies. My question is why does the audio suck so back sometimes? I understand how compression works and why that would happen to highly compressed videos. But for this reason I download videos that are gigs in size. Still, usually during scenes that have more complex sounds like music or action/explosions, it gets all watering sounding.
When you compress a movie from 46 gb down to 7 gb, literally the FIRST thing to get shafted is the audio. Basically every reencoder default downmixes from 5.1 or 7.1 to Dolby Pro II, which cuts out and moshes all the channels, and saves a bit of space. The audio is one of the few things I keep at max whenever I'm encoding something, because it's the most absurdly noticeable.
[-] vulcanproject | 4 points
The video might have a higher bitrate but the audio might still have a mediocre one depending on who encoded it, the video is the part that makes up most of the file size after all. So a bigger filesize might not by itself mean much better audio. Probably just too much compression per channel when the sound mixing gets complex.
Don't download still in theaters movies that are available as cam rips or other shit quality sources. If you download multiple gig files encoded in h264 and aac the sound quality should be great as long as it was ripped from a good source.
These would be Bluray rip and web downloads.
[-] Beatle_Matt | 1 points
Are the movies using AAC audio files? Do you use Plex?
An example would be this movie which is AAC and ripped from Bluray. I do not use Plex. I tested it on both my PC and USB on PS4 and same results.
Examples? My experience is pretty good with the audio from here, except for maybe a few files.
I watched this movie this week and experienced it. about 1 minute in and music begins and is noticeable.
[-] Darthryder | 1 points
Sometimes it depends on the media player. I had issues on my pc until I got vlc media player and now it's just fine.
[-] OkayDragon | 1 points
Agree. I had an issue where I couldn't play any audio until I got VLC Media Player.
[-] GhostHawk666 | 1 points
I have a strange issue where I have VLC, Set to output to HDMI in 7.1 format, but even when I play a file that is actually encoded with 7.1 sound, the damn system reads it a 2 channel stereo. Totally related to my Dell Laptop. Avoid that Dell garbage at all costs. Their support is useless these days. Even they could not fix it with updated sound drivers.
[-] Darthryder | 2 points
I find that hp, Lenovo and Samsung are where it's at for good hardware.
[-] GhostHawk666 | 1 points
The dumbest part of all this, is that they pipe the audio through the NVIDIA Graphics Driver and not the on-board Sound Card. So even using modern Realtek drivers does nothing. NVIDIA totally thinks its presenting 7.1 (DTS or AC3) to the HDMI port, but the Operating System or something else swaps it back to 2 channel stereo. Never again!
Tested this movie on VLC and got the bad audio issue about 1 minute in where the music begins. I was already using VLC to play files since I have not ran into anything it won't play. :)
I've experienced this before, change your media player, guaranteed its that. if still not fixed try new codecs, maybe mpc-hc. if you're not convinced, try the same files on your phone or tv using an app
Using VLC and have this issue. Put file on USB stick and played on PS4 with same results.
[-] commit_bat | 0 points
There's not a lot to go on here. Is it possible you have 5.1 sound that's not being output correctly?
don't expect full on lossless dolby or dts mixes here, if you are expecting that you gonna have a bad time. go buy the blu ray if you are so adamant about audio fidelity and support the artists.
[-] shaggyzon4 | 7 points
I think OP just wants to know
There's nothing wrong with asking questions. That's how we learn new things.
[-] GerdPferd88 | -1 points
The audio quality of every movie posted here is really good, except the cam movies. Action scenes with a lot going on have a higer video bitrate and use more cpu power to encode and play it, which makes encoding the audio slower. It also can miss blocks of data. If you have a slow cpu, this might be the problem and downloading smaller movies would help. You can have a 2 gig movie in full hd, which is great quality.
Ps4
[-] GerdPferd88 | -5 points
The ps4 has a rather slow clock with 1,6 GHz. I think that is more important for watching movies than the eight cores. Try to wahtch it on a pc, it might be better.
This morning I tried it on VLC on my pc and for the same. Will try to have an example up later.
[-] GerdPferd88 | 1 points
[-] vcdupper | 18 points | Sep 18 2016 17:27:11
Examples????
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[-] PropDad | 1 points | Nov 19 2016 17:54:58
This one here. 1 minute into the movie and the music playing is watery(?) sounding.
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