yay, I figured out how to do it.
First is using
FFMpeg while using
ffe as a front end gui.
Select:
video codec: copy
select correct audio codec/bitrate: (ac3,128 for me)
add 'extra parameters': -vol 512 (256 is default, 512 is 2x default, 768 is 3x default, or any integer above or below these works etc.)
Press "Do It!"
Worked excellent. :thumbsup:
(I thought I was going to have success with
VidCoder, but vid is twice the size so it's obviously encoding vid.)