Dialogue quiet and action scenes loud?

[Dimitri001]

I've noticed that very frequently, the movies I download have a dramatic difference in volume between the softer dialogue areas and the action scenes.  Its so severe that I have to turn the TV up during the dialogue and then get blown away during the action.

Is there something I can do about this?  I'm saving the movies on a computer and then watching on tv with the Roku media player (which I hate).

Thanks!
Chris

GOM player has a normalizer feature, which, if I understand it correctly, is supposed to do what you need, which is to say bring the lowest sounds and the loudest sounds closer to eachother, towards the middle.

[bob5695]

normalize is the same as maximize. meaning that the overall volume gets boosted till the clipping point. it's different from dynamic range compression, which lowers the amplitude.