Re: kino captured DV is too dark



On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:13:10 GMT, Snooze staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
Dances With Crows wrote:
Snooze wrote:
Is anyone else that's using the Kino video capture software having
trouble with DV grabbed video being too dark?
Video recorders are typically set up to record video that looks good
on a TV. Monitors have different brightness profiles than TVs, so if
I use xine to play a DVD or some DV on a monitor, that DVD/DV looks
"too dark".
I was just trying Totem player, in the preferences menu there's a
"display" menu and the color balance section has a slider for
brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue. None of them has any
effect on the mpg file I'm playing.

I've never used Totem, so can't really comment on it. But if none of
the video controls do anything, that sounds like a problem with Totem's
config. Anyway, if Totem's using XV (it should be), start a movie
playing and see if you can set XV_BRIGHTNESS to a different value with
xvattr or gxvattr, and see if that changes the brightness in Totem.

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