Dark Vidoes?

Fireskull · 14 Feb 2007 at 21:28

Hi just a quick question, every player on the family pc plays videos really darkly, if you understand what i mean, as in every video file played looks like its had contrast and bightness turned down to like %10, thought it might be (probably is) a codec problem so i put VLC on there and still dark on there :/ any ideas??

(sorry if this is on the wrong forum, move if it is please)

NathanE · 14 Feb 2007 at 21:57

In your video drivers look for the brightness/gamma/whatever of 'Overlays' and increase them. Every driver is different so I can't give specific instructions. But basically the keyword is 'overlay' or 'video overlays'.

They suck BTW, Vista's desktop compositor means that video overlays are now history.

Fireskull · 14 Feb 2007 at 21:59

hehe ill put forward the vista idea

and ill go check for the overlays now ty dude

Fireskull · 14 Feb 2007 at 22:18

hehe, i asked me bro before i asked this to reinstall NVIDIA driver, and that fixed it lol, thought i found the overlay bit and undertand it now

ty

bledd · 15 Feb 2007 at 00:20

nvidia had a few weird problems with newer drivers that sometimes cause this until you re-install them

Kierrox · 15 Feb 2007 at 08:22

Fireskull said:
Hi just a quick question, every player on the family pc plays videos really darkly, if you understand what i mean, as in every video file played looks like its had contrast and bightness turned down to like %10, thought it might be (probably is) a codec problem so i put VLC on there and still dark on there :/ any ideas??

(sorry if this is on the wrong forum, move if it is please)

I Have the same problem with VLC player in Vista too... so does my friend. I'm sure VLC will make a fix for vista soon.

JonD · 15 Feb 2007 at 08:25

I had this problem when i updated to a new driver. So i isntalled a previous driver until there was a new one.