Media volume is lower than the system volume

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  1. I don’t quite understand why the volume is always much lower than the system volume when playing videos with the ‘video’ tag in Anki for Windows/AnkiMobile. This is quite troublesome when switching between different applications, so I often need to manually adjust the system volume.

  2. Why doesn’t Windows support MP4 when playing videos with the ‘video’ tag? I have to convert MP4 to WEBM by ffmpeg, but converting a large number of MP4 files to WEBM is very time-consuming. Moreover, the WEBM format performs far worse on iPhones than MP4 (Read/Write video.currentTime). Therefore, I have to use two formats, which is laborious, time-consuming, a waste of storage space, and extremely cumbersome.

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The volume of Anki is approximately 40% of the system volume. It’s really frustrating! How can I adjust it to the normal volume?

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Video tags in AnkiMobile are handled by iOS, so I suspect you’d see identical volume if playing them in Safari. Have you done a test to confirm?

MP4 codecs have licensing restrictions, and Qt are not willing to distribute open source versions with them included.

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That’s the results of testing the volume when playing the same MP4 file in Anki and PotPlayer respectively on Windows.

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You’ve posted this in the AnkiMobile section, and I was asking about AnkiMobile. If your problem is only on Windows, I suggest you start by comparing the volume when playing the video via a [sound:] tag vs the video tag you’re using.

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In Windows you can adjust the relative volume app-by-app. Have you checked those volume settings?