I am thinking of the useful feature present in the MPUI video player (mplayer for windows) that can enable volume boost to impressive levels (not from the volume slider, but just from the mouse scroll).
In L/ubuntu I use VLC for the same purpose - normally up to 200%.
- I have found this and this related questions that imply overall volume boost and do not specify the desktop environment, which usually means they are Gnome-Unity specific.
I think the answers related to using the volume properties in order to boost overall volume above 100% is useful in LXDE/Lubuntu too, as Pulseaudio Volume Control can be used in LXDE.
But I would like to know if there's a way to do that with mplayer/smplayer - to get more boost.
I thought that maybe mplayer would do in Ubuntu/Lubuntu at least what it can do in Windows. But how?
2 Answers
Open SMPlayer, go to Options > Preferences. Under General, click the tab Audio.
There should be an option Use software volume control and next to it the maximum amplification. See this screenshot (my SMPlayer version is 0.8.3):
This is more of a complement to the question but it can stand as a partial answer or workaround.
Pulseaudio Volume Control (not installed by default in Ubuntu, to install go to pavucontrol ) would display the audio player/module that is runing and increase that.
So, VLC, already playing at 200%, can get a supplementary boost
And from what I see the sound is not distorted.
Also while playing SMPlayer.
This involves directly the mplayer module.
I guess that this solution can be added to the other answer (that i'll set as the permanent to the question "how to boost audio in smplayer").
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