video playback issues

[ilovepiano]

Whenever I watch a d'loaded film on my PC, I have to dick about with the brightness settings on media player, or DivX player or whatever, coz they always look dark as feck. The brigtness on my monitor is on full, but for some reason everything always looks a bit on the dark side. Can anyone shed some (ahem) light on the matter?

[Tim Acid]

Could be a few things...

1. If your monitor is old it could be time for a new brighter LCD monitor.

2. Because watching compressed video I would imagine this has a lot to do with the brightness. Infact when DVD's first arrived on the scene - many of them were quite dark and I had to keep adjusting my TV to get a good bright picture. If you are using mpeg or Divx AVI they will be heavily compressed and that is were you are most probably getting dark pictures from.

You could always go back to the traditional methods of a top shelf mag

[Jimmy]

right click on the video in windows media player select Advanced -> Properties -> DivX ;-) MPEG-4 Video Codec. There you can change varioucs settings ,by moving the slider...

Chances are though as DivX is generally a low motion compression if the movie was dark all you will bo is make the dark brighter but still no picture if you get what I am saying.

Get another copy ?

[Tigger]

If you've got an nvidia gfx card go into the Advanced section of your display properties - you can make all kinds of adjustments in the Nvidia settings some of which will sort out the brightness no end!