Windows Media Player's "Brightness/Contrast" option - simplest and best to date

[digifruitella]

I have used Color Balance, Color Corrector, Color Curves, Brightness Contrast options in Sony Vegas. I have played around with Virtual Dub's filter for it... but nothing, LITERALLY NOTHING of the aforementioned tools do the job that the simple "Brightness/Contrast" sliders that Windows Media Player has, do. If only I could somehow save the result in Windows Media Player, I wouldn't need to spend hours online looking for tutorials on how to brighten the image, or making threads about it as I am doing now - if that player had the option to save the results.

Seriously. Why is it so hard to brighten up an imagine in Sony Vegas the so called "Professional Tool" without having it look like a washed out white image.

The stuff WMP's "brightness/contrast" does literally within a drag of a slider is just PHENOMENAL. I could not replicate what it does with anything else I've tried to brighten the image with.

Am I just really missing some great mystery, or is WMP's tool truly is good in this department?

[Irakli]

Well, ffdshow tryout also offers great brightness/contrast correction tools (and much more). Just go to the Video Decoder Properties and then Picture Properties. You can just adjust brightness/contrast there.

The advantage of using ffdshow for brightness/contrast adjustment is that it works with any DirectShow software, so you don't have to separately adjust setting for each peace of software.

Regards,
Irakli

[digifruitella]

yes, but I dont understand how ffdshow is a tool that renders and saves videos, not to mention it won't allow you to change it in real time - with a preview window. I need to be seeing what I'm changing.

how do you use what you speak of to changed brightness and then SAVE it to an .avi or .wmv file?

[J_Darnley]

Real-time preview of ffdshow's settings is done when you are playing a file. Saving the result can be done with avisynth using DirectShowSource() or maybe DSS2() and an encoder. You don't even need ffdshow for it, avisynth can do alter colours all by itself.

[4Dude]

I thing i wish WMP brightness,etc controls would do is STAY WHERE I PUT THEM :D

With realplayer i can select whatever and THE CONTROLS STAY WHERE I PUT THEM!! (Even between sessions... WMP doesnt (Or if it does i dont know how to do it))

[digifruitella]

bump. anybody have any other solutions?

[iffybob]

I have an ATI radion 9550 graphics card, ( ie a few years old now) it has a number of direct show codecs built in, in the control pannel the settings for ajusting brightness/contrast etc. are in there, I admit that they are just for the overlay dispalys, ( which my card uses to display direct show ), but they are set for any prog that use them ie. they are persistent, but they do not alter the files, if I dont set them correctly, the movie palyback is darker than the desktop display, you may get the result you want by setting it there than altering the settings for each app.

[creamyhorror]

Real-time preview of ffdshow's settings is done when you are playing a file. Saving the result can be done with avisynth using DirectShowSource() or maybe DSS2() and an encoder.
I assume this is done by changing the ffdshow video decoder configuration, which affects FFVideoSource output? (And affects DSS2 as well?)

You don't even need ffdshow for it, avisynth can do alter colours all by itself.
But then you don't have a slider ;)

[J_Darnley]

I assume this is done by changing the ffdshow video decoder configuration, which affects FFVideoSource output? (And affects DSS2 as well?)
If FFVideoSource is part of ffmpegsource, then no. ffmpegsource does not use DirectShow for decoding, it uses ffmpeg. If it isn't then what is it?

I assume it affects DSS2 because it uses DirectShow too but since I have never tried it, I cannot confirm.

But then you don't have a slider ;)
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