DVD - audio track volume too low; can adjust??

I've got a commercial movie DVD and when I play it back using the default Apple DVD player, I notice that at any given time, the background music audio track is very loud, while the dialog is extremely quiet. Before I decide that it's a bad DVD and needs to be returned, I wonder if I'm missing some setting (Dolby or whatever): is there any way to bring up the volume of specific individual tracks from a DVD?
Mike

In DVD player preferences, Disc Setup, uncheck the box "Disable Dolby dynamic range compression".
That may help. If it's already unchecked there's nothing more you can do.

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Craw4dm,
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