[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dolby Digital dynamic range compression (drc_scale) is now 0 by default

[Andy Furniss]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

Apologies for the slightly out of place response. I've only just
subscribed after reading the rest of this thread via the archive.

I'm with KieranK the exception should be full range for those that can
stand it.

Maybe I am not best placed to comment as I mixdown to 2ch, but while
people here argue that full range is better quality, I would agree a
bit, but unfortunately many movies are mixed in such a way that in order
to hear the dialogue the loud bits become way way too loud for comfort.

The argument that DTS/AAC/TrueHD decs don't do it IMHO is invalid as in
the latter two cases at least this is only due to incomplete (and from
my pov sometimes therefore unusable) implementations.