# Weird audio problem.. Some AVIs and some online video..  very low voume audio

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**Created:** [January 14, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-audio-problem-some-avis-and-some-online-video-very-low-voume-audio/481234 "2009-01-14T07:32:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-audio-problem-some-avis-and-some-online-video-very-low-voume-audio/481234/1 "2009-01-14T07:32:13Z")

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The thing is its not _everything_ so I assume there’s some problem with my computer. Everything used to run fine audiowise. Suddenly some of the AVIs I have start playing muffly and quiet sounding and lots of stuff I watch online like some stuff from [hulu.com](http://hulu.com) is quiet even with the volume maxed out.

By process of elimination I don’t think its my actual speaker system because some files are just fine with the audio.

I run vista… if that matters.  
Thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-audio-problem-some-avis-and-some-online-video-very-low-voume-audio/481234/2 "2009-01-14T11:17:12Z")

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What media player do you use?

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**Author:** ![Anthony\_N](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Anthony\_N](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anthony_N)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-audio-problem-some-avis-and-some-online-video-very-low-voume-audio/481234/3 "2009-01-14T16:31:09Z")

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If it is not every video, I would start to suspect that it is the content itself that may have poorly recorded audio. This is not that uncommon in a world where more and more content is produced and uploaded by amateurs.

If you can determine that a praticular video does infact have normal sound levels played on another computer, then perhaps check to see if you can playback stereo audio properly by panning right to left with a known good audio file.

It is possible that a video with mono audio may play at very low level if your speakers were only connected to one channel of the sound card.