# Normalize/boost audio in Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [June 30, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/normalize-boost-audio-in-movies/277668 "2018-06-30T14:40:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![theonlycure](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/theonlycure/32/14981_2.png) [@theonlycure](https://forums.plex.tv/u/theonlycure)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/normalize-boost-audio-in-movies/277668/1 "2018-06-30T14:40:28Z")
Streaming many movies have suboptimal volume levels and or dynamics that force a person to have volume cranked up to hear much of anything only to have some portions of sound to be too loud and distorted. (wide dynamic range.) Instead of just offering small or large audio boost is there any way you could add ffmpeg audio filter dynaudnorm (-af dynaudnorm) without any parameters? (The default works very well.) I use it on all my transcodes and it boosts audio significantly without distortion. Only caveat is that you do need to have ffmpeg look ahead a bit. ( -probesize x) ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/normalize-boost-audio-in-movies/277668/2 "2019-01-01T04:51:04Z")
A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes. > [@Add support for dynamic range compression](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-support-for-dynamic-range-compression/21701/1): > > As someone who watches movies with two small children sleeping in the next room, this would be a godsend. It’s particularly evident when watching 5.0 movies downmixed to 2.0. Low volume parts such as talking are barely audible whereas loud parts such as explosions and gunfire are deafening. Adding customizable dynamic range compression would help. Something like this (VLC) would be awesome: [http://imgur.com/C8lNK](http://imgur.com/C8lNK) Cheers, Rickard Therefore this one is closed. Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it. * * * Please **search** before creating a new suggestion thread. Only one feature per thread. See feature suggestions, sorted by **most popular** first [https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions/l/votes](https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions/l/votes) ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/normalize-boost-audio-in-movies/277668/3 "2019-01-01T04:51:07Z")