I'm using a notebook and I often use earphones to listen to music or watch movies by plugging it to the headphone jack. The problem is that the volume is still too low even if I drag the volume to maximum and the audio quality is also bad because there isn't any equalizer. Of course it will sound better if I use speakers but I can't take them everywhere I go.
Is there any software or is it even possible for me to increase the volume even more?

Thanks for the replies!
Installed ffdshow but still not sure how it works so I gotta play around with it.
WinAmp does have equalizers but the volume is still kinda low.

Most of the time its very soft. But I guess it depends on how the mp3 or video is encoded or something. It might sound soft for some movies but not for others.

It can sound very loud if I plug speakers to the notebook jack and later plug my earphones to the speakers jack though.


Thanks! It works!
But ffdshow only seems to come out when I use Windows Media Player. Is there any way so I can also use it when I'm using VLC player or something?