So I've been tinkering around with windows media encoder 9 a little bit, trying to go from DVD's into a windows format as quickly and painlessly as possible. I used smart ripper with stream processing ...
Yep - normalizing is what you're looking for. I always decode to .WAV, then run it through CoolEdit 2000 to clean up any noise and normalize the audio to 98%. I then save back to .WAV, and use ...