Q: Volume is so low on ATV movies!!  Ideas?

Try blowing into the HDMI connectors and ports to eliminate dust and foreign material.

linuxubuntufan wrote:

 

Try blowing into the HDMI connectors and ports to eliminate dust and foreign material.

The chances of dust or other debris in the digital connectors affecting only overall volume rather than causing audio or video dropouts or artifacting is vanishingly small.

Try connecting to a speaker system other than your TV.

Try the steps listed in this article:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2090

Even though it's for no audio at all, it may help. Also, check to see if your TV has any sort of per-input audio adjustments. If so, that may be affecting the HDMI input used by the Apple TV but not the input from the cable box.

Hope this helps.

I suspect you may need to set your 'Dolby digital' setting to off. (settings > audio & video)

the only thing you can do to help this issue is use the volume adjustment on the downloaded files. i've tried everything and that's the only thing that seems to help at all.

get info>options>volume adjusment

apple doesn't use the max audio bitrate (165kbps) in their movies which makes the audio sound a little muffled and compressed. raising the volume adjustment up on the file in itunes will help a little.

turning off dolby digital may help at the expense of losing any actual or virtual surround sound coming through your home theater speakers, sound bar or tv speakers. not a great fix imo but may work for your set up. if you love movies you are really missing out if you don't have a surround sound system!

FYI, the last post on this thread was 1 year and 1 month ago. Valuable contributions will probably go to waste in dormant/dead threads like this, best to start your own.

I use StreamToMe (great app!) to play movie files like MKV, MP4, AVI on my ipad/AppleTV.

For each file, you can set a Volume Adjustment (-2.5 to +2.5).

I find +1.7 to be perfect for fixing this low volume problem.

You can also save the setting to "Global Settings" so every file defaults to this value.

This fixed my issue. thanks

This happened to me I went to setting --> audio and video turned everything on and changed audio language to default and it worked so the volume became normal.