Washed out videos

[Howard Brazee]

On my computer, most of my videos lost their color. .AVIs .MPGs &
..RMs appear washed out or have wrong colors. .MOV still look as good
as they ever did. I haven't noticed anything else looking wrong,
including games. This occurs with whatever video program I select.

I did get a new Samsung SynchMaster 204T monitor, along with its
software (Natural Color, MagicBright). I also had a system crash
causing me to reinstall my Windows XP Pro.

I don't use videos very often, so I haven't been in too big of a hurry
to fix it - I have downloaded & installed various codecs without
noticing a change.

How do I debug this problem?

 

[Howard Brazee]

On my computer, most of my videos lost their color. .AVIs .MPGs &
.RMs appear washed out or have wrong colors. .MOV still look as good
as they ever did. I haven't noticed anything else looking wrong,
including games. This occurs with whatever video program I select.

I did get a new Samsung SynchMaster 204T monitor, along with its
software (Natural Color, MagicBright). I also had a system crash
causing me to reinstall my Windows XP Pro.

I don't use videos very often, so I haven't been in too big of a hurry
to fix it - I have downloaded & installed various codecs without
noticing a change.

How do I debug this problem?

I found a .WMV with the same problem.

 

[Bob Myers]

I found a .WMV with the same problem.

Sounds like a problem with the "gamma" (display response curve) being
assumed by the video. If your monitor, or possibly your playback software,
lets you adjust the "gamma" value, you might want to try that and see if it
helps.

Bob M.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Sounds like a problem with the "gamma" (display response curve) being
assumed by the video. If your monitor, or possibly your playback software,
lets you adjust the "gamma" value, you might want to try that and see if it
helps.

What's interesting is that I use several playback programs, including
Microsoft Media Player. If I adjust the gamma, I want to do so for
all of them.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Sounds like a problem with the "gamma" (display response curve) being
assumed by the video. If your monitor, or possibly your playback software,
lets you adjust the "gamma" value, you might want to try that and see if it
helps.

I downloaded a video player, Hyplay, and got the correct gamma. I
didn't care for that player, but am guessing that it is using a
different codec.

I tried playing the same video on the same monitor from a different XP
Pro computer using Windows Media Player, and the gamma is good.

I must have some kind of gamma setting that Windows Media Player uses
- but I have no idea how to reset it.