Is the vlc media player safe
VLC Media player, FFdshow, or any other audio filters are unable to change this fact Therefore, along its output range of frequencies, it can only achieve X decibels of output no matter what input it receives. That decibel range is determined by the hardware specs of your speakers and the volume settings. So your speakers are already preset to output a particular decibel range in response to audio channel data. Instead, what is being amplified are the digital channels in the your audio stream. There's no actual electroncal/analog signal to be amplified. Software amplifiers don't work the way that electronic amplifiers do.
So I don't think there's a way for an application program to increase the wattage the internal amplifier draws and then cause your speakers to break.Īlthough come to think of it, they do have "pre-amps" to bring things to "line level." but I'd have to defer to an audio expert on that. On a laptop, they've included "powered speakers" for you, so to speak. Sound cards don't contain amplifiers - that's why you have use powered speakers with them. I can see some really cheap or low quality laptops possibly being susceptible to defects here, but it's pretty unlikely. In a laptop, the internal amplifier has been selected by the manufacturer and should always work with those speakers which are also manufacturer selected. So if you use a 100W stereo with speakers rated 20W, you can blow them.
You should not be able to hurt your speakers unless you are using an amplifier that is rated above what the speakers are. I believe the only thing that will happen when you raise the volume above 100% is that you will get clipped, distorted audio.