Dark scenes look artificial (video level issue?)

[P.J]

I really wish you would add the option to set full RGB or limited RGB (16-235) in the software itself. My HDTV does not seem to support full RGB and Nvidia's drivers don't seem to offer an option for this. MPC+ffdshow allows you to set this nicely in software.

I agree with you too. For example in CPU mode, it's more limited than GPU but much less than Overlay which is bad.

[Alex]

"kasakka wrote:I really wish you would add the option to set full RGB or limited RGB (16-235) in the software itself. My HDTV does not seem to support full RGB and Nvidia's drivers don't seem to offer an option for this. MPC+ffdshow allows you to set this nicely in software."

I think this is the best way. Try it.

[antorsae]

Hello - I finally had time to take a few shots with my camera to illustrate. My projector (Panasonic AE2000) has something called Waveform monitor which allows you to "see" the video levels of a horizontal line within the screen. This is very handy to quickly see video levels, etc.

In this screenshot


On the left side you see Splash-pro and on the right side you see Media Player Classic HC (MPC-HC). You can see that the video level in the left is offset (see the waveform analyzer on the top of the screen) by 16 and it is OK in MPC-HC.

I've tried different settings:

Do you experience the same issues with:
- hw acceleration disabled and motion2 enabled

Same issue:

- hw acceleration disabled and motion2 disabled?

Same issue:


The only combination that I get the right levels with is by disabling video overlay:


HOWEVER, eventhough Motion2 is enabled in the configuration settings, Motion2 IS NOT ACTIVE when disabling video overlay so I cannot effectively use Motion2 with the correct (RGB) levels in my setup (ATI 6850 w/ Catalyst 11.6, Windows 7 64-bit ).

NOTE: I've restarted Splash PRO each time I've applied the settings.

[gold333]

The only combination that I get the right levels with is by disabling video overlay:

Just to check what you mean, don't you mean enabling video overlay? The default setting for "force video overlay" is unchecked, i.e. off.

[P.J]

What about this:

- HW acceleration disabled and Motion2 disabled and Overlay disabled

[kushal_fpost]

I am also having the same issue, please provide me some solution, Thanks..

[antorsae]

I've tested it a bit more:

- Force video overlay checked: No matter what I do, video levels are WRONG.

- Force video overlay UNchecked: Video levels OK, but Motion2 does not work (video is not smooth as it is when Motion2 is working)

Any ideas?

[P.J]

Would you upload the video?

Have you tried with and without HW acceleration too?

[Ghost]

I've tested it a bit more:

- Force video overlay checked: No matter what I do, video levels are WRONG.

- Force video overlay UNchecked: Video levels OK, but Motion2 does not work (video is not smooth as it is when Motion2 is working)

Any ideas?

Motion2 does not work with force video overlay disabled?