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[CountryBumkin]

I have run the audio analyzer on all my videos (movies and tv shows) and I have "Volume Leveling" turned on. I have Volume set to "Internal". This works nicely switching between movies and recorded tv shows. The volume level is consistent between tv shows and movies.

But if I go from a recorded tv show or a movie, to "Live TV" the volume goes very loud. I assume this is because the there is no way for MC to apply Volume Leveling to Live TV.

So - Is the best way to keep these volume levels in the same range, maybe to apply Room Correction (to my ripped Movies and recorded tv shows) where I then increase the volume (for example +5db on all speakers) and apply that to each tv show/movie (apply DSP per file) so they are all louder, and then hopefully match closer the volume I get with live TV?

Or is there another or better way?

[RoderickGI]

I still haven't used Zones much so I'm no expert, but...

Couldn't you set up a Zone with a reduced starting volume, and then have a Zone Switch rule for live TV? I don't know if that is possible, but it would be worth investigating.

I don't like the idea of your suggestion at all, since it requires overriding the Audio Analysis settings manually for all your stored media. Too much ongoing work. I think there was agreement in another thread recently that using Zones is a far better option than using DSP per file.

[CountryBumkin]

"Zones" sounds like a good idea.
 I have not used Zones yet - but I think that I would  setup a Zone on each TV (each MC computer) so when I switch from movie or tv show to live TV it would apply a different DSP (one with lower volume).