Video/TV very dark :(

[Kibou]

When watching videos or TV using BSplayer, they are displayed very dark, despite my brightness/contrast settings for monitor and desktop beeing just fine.

I realized, that switching to the Rendering Mode "Internal Renderer DDraw Surface" instead of "Overlay Mix" or "Internal renderer overlay" fixes the brightness problem, but not the TV takes a very long time to load, so this isn´t a long-time solution.

[Kibou]

I just discovered I get the same dark videos when using Winamp or even when playing DVDs using PowerDVD. In winamp I can fix the problem by disabling "allow hardware video overlay".

[J7N]

Maybe you have adjusted color settings in Display Properties (or any Control Panel extensions for your video adapter). There should be 2 sets of brightness, contrast and gamma: one for the desktop (which is fine) and one for the overlay.

[Kibou]

That worked! I didn´t even now my Video-cards driver settings had that video setting option and I never touched it, but for some wierd reason gamma was set to -8% there (on a scala that doesn´t go below 0 =)
I corrected it and everything looks fine now.

Thanks a lot!

[J7N]

:D