ArdenDag
6th September 2007, 15:35
Ok, I've run out of patience after looking everywhere I could for the solution to this problem.
I play videos on my system using a variety of software players, but mostly Media Player Classic. When I play videos on my system, they would look very bright, and I would have to play with the contrast and brightness to fix the issue.
Well, a while back I realized that if I set the Directshow filter properties in MPC to VMR9 instead of the system default, that my videos played properly. This is great, except when I am on the net and there are embedded Windows Media Players, which still play the videos with the weird brightness.
Can I see what my system default directshow filter/renderer settings are, and see why this is occuring in videos viewed without forcing VMR9 to be used? Or can I change my system default directshow filter? Please help :)
Arden
*** EDIT ***
Ok, I think I may have found something which may help... I downloaded SMPlayer (an mplayer frontend) and in the options, it gives two options for video output, directx and directx:noaccel. When I switch to the directx:noaccel, the video plays fine, whereas with the regular directx, the video is again too bright. Also, as an FYI for anyone with insight, when I adjust video properties for brightness and contast, the video settings get 'out-of-whack', as in the settings I make (brightness -2 or -20) instead make the video look brighter than it did before my change. Changing back to 0 now makes the video look completely different than it did before I changed it.
I play videos on my system using a variety of software players, but mostly Media Player Classic. When I play videos on my system, they would look very bright, and I would have to play with the contrast and brightness to fix the issue.
Well, a while back I realized that if I set the Directshow filter properties in MPC to VMR9 instead of the system default, that my videos played properly. This is great, except when I am on the net and there are embedded Windows Media Players, which still play the videos with the weird brightness.
Can I see what my system default directshow filter/renderer settings are, and see why this is occuring in videos viewed without forcing VMR9 to be used? Or can I change my system default directshow filter? Please help :)
Arden
*** EDIT ***
Ok, I think I may have found something which may help... I downloaded SMPlayer (an mplayer frontend) and in the options, it gives two options for video output, directx and directx:noaccel. When I switch to the directx:noaccel, the video plays fine, whereas with the regular directx, the video is again too bright. Also, as an FYI for anyone with insight, when I adjust video properties for brightness and contast, the video settings get 'out-of-whack', as in the settings I make (brightness -2 or -20) instead make the video look brighter than it did before my change. Changing back to 0 now makes the video look completely different than it did before I changed it.