VLC Media Player – Increase Volume up to 300 percent
How to increase the volume of the VLC media Player to up to 300% (300 percent). Increase volume to more than 200 or 200 percent
This tutorial will assist you to increase the Volume ofthe VLC media player to 300 % (300 percent). This is usually useful if you havea poor quality audio file.
Disclaimer: Increasing the volume of the VLC media player to maximum might affect the speaker of the Computer System (Laptop or built in speaker in Desktop Computer).
1) Launch the VLC media player.
2) Click on tools on the menu bar, select preferences OR press Ctrl + P on your keyboard.
3) At the lower left hand corner, you will see show settings, simple is selected, check All to display all the settings.
4) On the left hand corner, you will see the interface, expand the main interfaces.
5) Click on Qt.
6) On the right hand, scroll down to the last and you will see Maximum Volume displayed, increase the value to get 300 or type in 300 and click on save.
7) Restart the VLC media Player. (that is close the VLC media player and reopen it)
8) You will see that the volume has been increased to 300 %.
This is actually useful with video with low quality sound or audio.
Please comment below for any problem encountered. Please share and Like.
ÄRiGaTo says
for me the volume is capped at 200% even tho i set it up to 300%
looks like vlc has implemented some countermeasures smh
btw thanx for the tutorial it was really helpful
Tim says
You are welcome sir.
D.Barretti says
Thank you so very much!
Tim says
You are welcome
Jimmy Mbugua says
Helpful.
Thank you.
Nadeem Younas says
I followed your way, but please do not guide what Walm did
Looking forward to your reply Nadim Younis
Anonymous says
good stuff! it worked fine!!
Anonymous says
Very helpful
Thanks a lot
Mj says
I clicked on QT and scrolled down but I couldn’t find anything that said maximum volume 🙁
Tim says
Scroll down, You will see Maximum Volume Displayed (the default is 125), thus you can change it.
Dean says
This is really helpful, thank you so much for the article.
Tim says
Welcome Dean
Jackson says
That was indeed Helpful, Thanks!
Tim says
Thanks Jackson, Happy you found it useful. Hope You were really able to increase the volume to more than 200