Vmr9 Looks like overlay?

[mrkazador]

Pc:
amd3400+
1gb ram
x800gt 256mb
WinXp

Zoom Player 5 preview 7

Customized Media Mode is enabled
Vmr9 Windowless
Nero file/ Source splitter ->Ac3 Filter, Dscaler5 w/IVTC (output Yv12)

Vmr9 windowless looks EXACTLY the same as overlay on my pc monitor. I know for a fact that vmr9 is "brighter" as i remember it looking like that before. Ive tried vmr7, vmr9 renderless and exclusive and they all look like its in "overlay" mode. Under filter properties by right clicking the display it shows im using vmr9....
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/896/untitled1oy0.th.jpg (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled1oy0.jpg)
I have re-download Zoom Player and re-installed and its the same.

Any help would be great, thank you.

Edit: It seems when i play a dvd in vmr9 windowless using dscaler5 it shows correctly(16-235) but when playing a transport stream is looks like overlay. Any other video format that dscaler5 can decode works perfectly fine with vmr9, its just transport streams that are giving me a problem.:angry:

I posted this in inmatrix support forum and hopefully i can get some help here, thank you.

[check]

If you wish to change levels, simply install something like ffdshow and set it to decode uncompressed video. Then you can use that to set TV levels.
As to the brightness change, chances are you updated your video drivers to less borked ones. You can find overlay settings in the video config but most VMR settings are hidden.

[mrkazador]

Lets say i use both dscaler5 and ffdshow at the same time. I tick "levels" and output 16-235. Would this be correct?
Or
Should i set input and the output the same? (16-235)
Here is a screenshot of the suggested setup:
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8757/untitled1ce1.th.jpg (http://img129.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled1ce1.jpg)

Thanks for your help.

[check]

It depends, and I'm not too sure which way is correct. Generally I don't touch output modification as I don't output to TV - on PC monitors the two different modes I compare are input 16-235 and input 0-255 (with full range ticked).
As always - what looks best to you is the best way, but be careful you don't go overboard. It's easy to crop the black (or white) levels too far so you miss real detail.

[mrkazador]

UPDATE!

Seems like ATI maps Vmr9 levels to Pc levels starting from catalyst 6.6. Installed Catalyst 6.5 drivers and now its being shown correctly, why would ati do this........

[breez]

UPDATE!

Seems like ATI maps Vmr9 levels to Pc levels starting from catalyst 6.6. Installed Catalyst 6.5 drivers and now its being shown correctly, why would ati do this........

Interesting. However, on a 9800Pro video levels remain in all catalyst versions.