videoing problems when watching video files

IceShock · 15 Jan 2007 at 22:30

hey
(sorry if this is in the wrong forum iv not posted anything software related befor)

when i watch a movie file any video file. it is a lot darker than it should be.

it stays dark for about 2 mins and then it goes normal to normal brightness and some times it doesnt change from being dark at all.

does any one know what i could do about it? thanks

masslac · 15 Jan 2007 at 23:16

Could be a deinterlacing problem. If rebooting doesn't solve it, have you tried simply reinstalling the app?

IceShock · 16 Jan 2007 at 00:45

it does it on all videos. windows media player it happens when watchin on that. and real player and videos on websites etc

masslac · 16 Jan 2007 at 00:47

I would probably reinstall graphics drivers. Has any other GPU work been affected (IE - gaming) ?

IceShock · 16 Jan 2007 at 01:07

well everything else seems fine really :S erm. yeh everything else is fine

masslac · 16 Jan 2007 at 01:11

Hmm. Still, reinstall graphics drivers tbh.

IceShock · 16 Jan 2007 at 01:13

ok cheers mate. will do later

just transfering a 890gb folder from a external hdd to another external hdd

masslac · 16 Jan 2007 at 01:19

Ah, USB 2.0. Such fun...

IceShock · 16 Jan 2007 at 01:20

lol. would be a 6 day job on my old amd 4400x2 @ 2.95ghz,

im glad the stupid amd chip decided to blow up on me so i could have a excuse to go conroe

d.chatten · 16 Jan 2007 at 09:01

IceShock said:
hey
(sorry if this is in the wrong forum iv not posted anything software related befor)

when i watch a movie file any video file. it is a lot darker than it should be.

it stays dark for about 2 mins and then it goes normal to normal brightness and some times it doesnt change from being dark at all.

does any one know what i could do about it? thanks

Try this > Right click the NVIDIA icon in the taskbar and select Colour Correction, when the NVIDIA control panel pops up you will see a dropdown menu labeled Apply colour changes to: in this dropdown menu you will see three options, Desktop, Overlay and All, select All and click Apply then click OK.

Hope this helps!

IceShock · 16 Jan 2007 at 12:53

thank for the help. btw id of tryed that but i reinstalled my video drivers heh it fixed it anyway

bledd · 16 Jan 2007 at 13:15

IceShock said:
lol. would be a 6 day job on my old amd 4400x2 @ 2.95ghz,

im glad the stupid amd chip decided to blow up on me so i could have a excuse to go conroe

there's no difference when copying files.. just disable av and any normal pc should copy roughly at the same speed as a new pc -if the same hard drives are used

Tony Williams · 16 Jan 2007 at 15:12

IceShock said:
lol. would be a 6 day job on my old amd 4400x2 @ 2.95ghz,

im glad the stupid amd chip decided to blow up on me so i could have a excuse to go conroe

Damn, I feel outdated with my 3000+

What about codecs? Could they be the problem, do you have FFDShow and is it set proper?