#!/usr/bin/env bash # Use this to normalize the audio of a video using the average loudness, or RMS-based normalization. # This does not re-encode the video. # # Inspired by https://superuser.com/a/323127 and https://superuser.com/a/1312885 if which tput >/dev/null 2>&1; then ncolors=$(tput colors) fi if [ -t 1 ] && [ -n "$ncolors" ] && [ "$ncolors" -ge 8 ]; then RED="$(tput setaf 1)" GREEN="$(tput setaf 2)" YELLOW="$(tput setaf 3)" BLUE="$(tput setaf 4)" MAGENTA="$(tput setaf 5)" CYAN="$(tput setaf 6)" BOLD="$(tput bold)" NORMAL="$(tput sgr0)" else RED="" GREEN="" YELLOW="" BLUE="" MAGENTA="" CYAN="" BOLD="" NORMAL="" fi if [[ $1 == "" ]]; then printf "${BOLD}${RED}Usage: $0 ${NORMAL}\n" exit 1 fi filename=$(basename -- "$1") extension="${filename##*.}" filename="${filename%.*}" output_name="$2" if [[ $output_name == "" ]]; then output="${filename}_normalized_audio.$extension" else output="${output_name}.$extension" fi printf "\n${YELLOW}${BOLD}Normalizing audio in $filename.$extension | output: $output${NORMAL}\n" # This is done in two passes. The first pass will compute the mean loudness and # the second pass will normalize the audio using the mean as the target. # -vn, -sn, and -dn tells ffmpeg to ignore non-audio streams during the analysis. This speeds things up. ffmpeg -i "$filename.$extension" -af "volumedetect" -vn -sn -dn -f null /dev/null #ffmpeg -i "$filename.$extension" -c:v copy -ac 1 "$output" printf "\n${GREEN}${BOLD}Done normalizing audio in $filename.$extension | output: $output${NORMAL}\n\n" #--------------------------------------- # This seems better. 2 pass using loudnorm filter. # 1st pass: ffmpeg -i "$filename.$extension" -pass 1 -filter:a loudnorm=print_format=json -vn -sn -dn -f null /dev/null # 2nd pass: ffmpeg -i "$filename.$extension" -c:v copy -pass 2 -filter:a loudnorm=linear=true:measured_I=$input_i:measured_LRA=$input_lra:measured_tp=$input_tp:measured_thresh=$input_thresh "$output" # TODO: extract the $input_i, input_lra, etc from the 1st pass output so that this can be automated. # TODO: stackoverflow said if there are subtitles or multiple vid streams then add "-map 0" before the output name. Test this. # TODO: disable the log file or just delete it after normalizing.