Brightness of Divx movies

[Rickten]

When I was using win98SE I would notice that after a few seconds of playing divx encoded movie it would all of a sudden get brighter. It would start off dark and hard to see and then just brighten up. Now that I'm using win2k it never gets brighter just stays dark. Has anyone noticed this about playing divx files. I'm trying to figure out a way to make them get bright again in win2k.

 

[ugh]

Never experienced that. But you can set the brightness when playing the DivX file by:

File->Properties->Advanced->(Dbl click) DivX MPEG-4 DVD Video Decompressor

and tweak away.

 

[Duvie]

I run win98 and I noticed that most divx encodings I do are slightly darker then the original...not much of annoyance at all to me. However the movie Finding Forrester was a dark movie anyways and divx I think doesn't do well with dark movies as they tend to look quite artifacty regardless of bitrate you set.

I think there may a guide or FAQ that can help you at www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides.htm.

Maybe virtual dub or nanub may have a filter you can run during encoding to handle this. It is odd as I think mine look fine on my system with my radeon card...

 

[Rickten]

ugh

is that from inside windows media player. I go to file properties and I don't have an advanced tab.

 

[Dufusyte]

Brightness also depends on your video card drivers and on the player used for playback.

For example, Voodoo drivers give you a slider for the brightness of the regular desktop, and a separate slider to adjust the brightness for the Video Overlay. Most players will use a Video Overlay for playing video.

Try playing the movie using Real Player, and try again using Media Player, and try again with some player like BS Player. You will get different results with each player. Some players will pick up the brightness from your video card's brightness settings, while other players will ignore it.

btw, BS player is great if the movie was encoded with the wrong aspect ration (so that everybody is too thin, for example) since you can select a corrective Aspect Ratio in BS Player.