Xandros
15th October 2010, 15:02
This old chestnut... I've got gamma shift issues on videos I've encoded with Handbrake using the x264 codec and after sifting through mountains of forum posts, blog articles all I can come up with that seems anywhere near what needs doing is this:
http://byteful.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-fix-the-h264-gamma-brightness-bug-in-quicktime/
Except that guys talking about a QuickTime plugin. I always kind of figured that the gamma tag I've heard so much about is the reason behind this annoyance I've got. However, after looking at the MeGUI x264 options (seeing as Handbrake's aren't up-to-date by a long shot), I can only fathom anything to do with gamma being the transfer setting. But that isn't the gamma tag, it doesn't make a blind bit of differences changing that from the default as I didn't expect it to.
I need some way of inserting the correct tag into these videos I'm make so QuickTime displays the gamma correctly. Ultimately, the reason for this is because I only mostly intend to watch these videos on an Apple TV (old generation) and that thing uses QuickTime. And therefore, suffers from the same problem of displaying videos kind of washed out (though they aren't quite as bad on my TV, it still is noticeable).
Now I have absolutely no understanding of how any of this works so I accept I may have just written a lot of codswallop and apologise in advanced.
http://byteful.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-fix-the-h264-gamma-brightness-bug-in-quicktime/
Except that guys talking about a QuickTime plugin. I always kind of figured that the gamma tag I've heard so much about is the reason behind this annoyance I've got. However, after looking at the MeGUI x264 options (seeing as Handbrake's aren't up-to-date by a long shot), I can only fathom anything to do with gamma being the transfer setting. But that isn't the gamma tag, it doesn't make a blind bit of differences changing that from the default as I didn't expect it to.
I need some way of inserting the correct tag into these videos I'm make so QuickTime displays the gamma correctly. Ultimately, the reason for this is because I only mostly intend to watch these videos on an Apple TV (old generation) and that thing uses QuickTime. And therefore, suffers from the same problem of displaying videos kind of washed out (though they aren't quite as bad on my TV, it still is noticeable).
Now I have absolutely no understanding of how any of this works so I accept I may have just written a lot of codswallop and apologise in advanced.