Black level bug (greyish black)
 

I have started using a bit MPC-BE player and noticed somehow the BS.P's image looks worse - then I found out that in BS.P -Video - Color controls I had some settings, mainly Brightness at -24 - I raised it and black became grey.

I have probably had this problem ever since, but instead of fixing it I thought this will fix it, but while it works, it also reduces contrast, so while it can make blacks black again it also reduces the brightness of other colors.


https://i.imgur.com/QkQd1P5.png (left is BS.P, right is MPC-BE)

It looks like it is forcing everything into 16-235 limited range and there seems to not be the option to switch it to a full range. MPC-BE has this in its Video options which confirms my theory, after switching it there to a limited range it looks identical to BS.P.

Any idea how to fix it?

Any suggestions?

Change rendering engine in options -> preferences -> video -> video rendering.

Okay, choosing the "Internal renderer overlay (default)" helped, but not that it really matters anymore, I switched to MPC-BE and that one seems to be just more powerful and also MadVR never worked for me in BS.P (I would get only audio), it works there though (although I loooove AC3filter for audio as I can really tune the down-mixing to my fullest liking so that one thing I will miss).