Media Player too dark

boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
edited January 2008 in Science & Tech
Someone screwed around with something and now whatever I watch on the media player comes out a lot darker than what it looks like before I watch/download it. If I adjust my video card settings (gamma) while a video is playing it fixes the problem but only until I close out the player and open another movie or music video.

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  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Check/reinstall the necessary codecs, and/or reinstall the vid drivers. I've had something like that, and using the wrong codecs can do all kinds of messed up things.

    Use GSpot to find the codecs you need if you don't know what they are.
  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
    GSpot?
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    GSpot.
  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
    I rolled back the player to its original version that came with XP, that didn't seem to fix the problem: however I can change the player settings which I must now do to brighten everything up every time I open the player.

    I'm gonna hit up GSpot and get back to ya.

    Edited for spelling.
  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
    Damn this thing is confusing =/
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Haha. Open the app, open up a Windows Explorer window, and it's as easy as dragging the file name onto the box at the top left corner. Then all you're looking for is the required audio and video filters, and it'll tell you if they're installed or not. Making sense of it yet?
  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
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  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
    Ok, I saw the newbie guide on the site.

    Is there a way to make a text file report? I'm not seeing it in any of the options up top.
  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
    The first 3 boxes under the video section say the following:

    Codec: WMVA
    Name: WMP v10 (VC-1 Beta)
    Status: Codec Status Undetermined
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    boricua9215 wrote:
    GSpot?

    HAHAHA, dirty dirty thoughts came to my mind....


    carry on!
  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
    fatcat wrote:
    HAHAHA, dirty dirty thoughts came to my mind....


    carry on!

    Me too, I typed GSpot in the URL and did the Ctrl Shift Enter and got wisked away to a pron shop :X

    Edited for spelling again.
  • TiberiusLazarusTiberiusLazarus Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Not sure if you have an Nvidia card but sometimes with these the video settings will be changed for no apparent reason. If you do have an nvidia card, try going into the control panel and find the 'adjust video color settings' option. In this if its not at the defaults try setting them to default. Other than that I have no suggestions.
  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
    NVidia 7800GS

    What you suggested is exactly what I do each time I close out and open the player, specifically the gamma settings. The default setting just keeps the video darker than normal.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Man, I've seen this before, and I can't for the life of me remember what I did to fix it. Sorry, bud. I keep coming back to the codecs and the driver.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    I had this issue once on my 7950GX2, except everything was overbright. I uninstalled the drivers and gutted it with a driver cleaner. Solved!
  • boricua9215boricua9215 Hollywood, FL.
    edited January 2008
    Would this be like uninstalling the drivers that came with the CD and reinstalling them?

    Edit: Did this and it worked. Media players picture is back to normal :D
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