Volume is so low on ATV movies!! Ideas?

I have had the same issue with Netflix, Hulu, Plex etc., only Channels worked fine on Apple TV 4 for months.

But I accidentally solved it yesterday, by using Siri to do a search while I was watching Netflix.

It seems like Siri search triggered something that took care of the problem.

I hope the same will do the trick for you too.

No way ... that Siri trick fixed it for my Apple TV 4 also. What the ... ???!!!

I was not expecting that to do anything, but it worked. We've had to crank the volume on my ONKYO Receiver when using Plex on the Apple TV. We have other devices through the same receiver and they all sounded fine.

Thanks for that tip about Siri. Whatever it does, it fixed mine too.

Mine was doing the exact same thing. Had to turn it all the way up to 100 to get the same volume as I normally would at 30. I tried to make all kinds of adjustments, nothing worked until... I went into Settings/System (then of all things)/Reset. Volume was back to normal. Extremely loud at 30 and unbareable at 100. Not sure how often we’ll have to do this, but the reset is very quick.

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.