Today, we talk about the Roku TV volume leveling. You may be unaware of this feature if you are new to the streaming platform. It’s a great feature you can use to control the unexpected loud volume, especially playing the commercials while watching a movie.
Roku has some advanced features and one of them is the automatic volume control.
What is Roku volume leveling?
Commercial videos are made with high volume to attract the customer’s attention. So, during watching a movie on Roku TV, when Roku commercials come, the sound increases accordingly and will annoy us, especially at night when your child on asleep. To prevent a sudden increase in sound, you can enable the Roku volume leveling feature.
Volume leveling works by detecting when there are sudden spikes or dips in volume. such as commercials, action scenes, etc, and automatically adjust the sound to the normal level. It aims to provide a more consistent and comfortable listening experience by automatically adjusting the audio output.
This feature is available on all streaming devices like sticks, boxes, smart TVs like TCL, Hisense TV, etc.
How to enable Volume leveling on Roku TV?
There are two methods available.
- Through settings option
- Setting up while playing the content
Turn on volume leveling through the settings
- Turn on your TV
- Press the Home button on the remote
- Go to the settings option
- Select the Audio option
- Then select the Volume modes
- Enable Leveling option
- Done
It automatically adjusts the volume across the various videos. You don’t need to take the remote control every time to manually control it.
Under the Volume modes, there are other two options available. The OFF option and the Night mode.
In the OFF mode, the volume modes are inactive and the volume of the content is unmodified. You can choose this option to disable the feature.
What is the use of the night mode?
It adjusts the soft sounds to high and the high sounds will be decreased. No disturbance to others. And the result is a very soothing streaming experience.
This method can be used even if you are connected external devices to your Roku streaming device like Blu-ray players, Home theatre systems, set-top boxes, etc.
Turn on leveling during playback
It is the second option.
start playing any content on your Roku.
Press the * button on the remote control to pull the settings option
Then select the Sound settings. Go to the volume mode, and enable the leveling.
This method not working when the media source from external devices
Fix the Roku volume leveling not working issue
I already mentioned two methods for the leveling. If your Roku TV volume leveling not working, you should check that when content playing it’s not working. If the media source is from an external device, you should enable the volume leveling through the Roku settings option.
If the media source is from the Roku channel store, you can use any of the given methods.
You can restart your device, or power recycle it and then try setting up the volume leveling whether it can be fixed or not.
So, how to do power recycling?
Unplug all the cables from your TV and streaming device. Do not connect it to the power outlet. Wait for 2 minutes. Then reconnect all cables.
Then try to set it up. Hope the issue will be fixed.
Conclusion
Roku’s volume leveling feature automatically adjusts audio to maintain consistent volume across varying content. This prevents loud commercials or action scenes from disturbing viewers. Overall, leveling provides a more comfortable listening experience, especially at night. It’s a useful feature new users should enable for smooth, steady streaming volume.
Read More:-
- How to improve Roku TV performance
- Change language on Disney plus Roku
- How to turn the volume up or down on Roku TV without a remote