DIVX Black Out

[imported_CromsDog]

Is anybody else out there having problems with DIVX encoding dark seens waaaaayy to dark. Some of the movies I have recorded lately (I.E. The Bourne Supremecy, X2,) have had major issues with darker scenes. I cannot see anything in seens with low light situations. For Hardware I am using the ATI TV Wonder Pro and I have an ATI Radeon 9800pro graphics card. I am encoding using the supplied ATI software with the Home Theater setting. This is mpeg4 DIVX encoding (i checked in the settings). Should I try a differnt Tuner card? I don't think this is the problem because when watching in real time the scenes appear fine but the played back recordings don't. I know that the encoding is being done via my processor but I am not haveing a problem with system resources becauses I barely hit the 10% mark. Should I record in mpeg2 and use a seperate encoder like Dr. DIVX. Anybody with some experience please help.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I noticed something similar when I was using my WinTV PCI card to capture video from consoles to make game vids for some friends. I had to boost the brightness/adjust contrast/saturation on the inputs. Note that realtime preview mode for a capture card generally uses your video card's "overlay" feature, which has a seperate set of HSV controls, which only apply to the overlay viewing, not to the capture source. Make sure to adjust the controls for the capture-card driver itself.

However, I know that there have been some recent revisions to DivX too, so if this only started right after upgrading your DiVX, then it probably isn't the reason that I stated, but I would check that just to be sure.

 

[imported_CromsDog]

Thanks, I have since found the Brightness features for my card and slightly altered them to see if this helps. The prob is ATI's Multi Media Center has limited abilities to do it in. I also tried Dr. DivX. Just to let everyone know my expierence with it so far has sucked. The player included with it locked up my pc when playing back a DivX file! I had to hard boot the P.C. to get it back up. I tried again and sure enough BAM! Locked it up again. All I was trying to do was skip ahead a little bit. I can do this seamlessly with Windows Media Player and Winamp. Then I tried encoding from a live source............. Well it didn't lock the P.C. up but it shure ate up system resources in a hurry. It hovered between 85% and 99% the whole time. When doing the same thing in Multimedia Center it normally stays around 15% to a PEAK of 35%. I have a P4 2.66Ghz with 1.5 Gb of RAM. I should not be maxing out when encoding video. I'll keep messing around with it to find a happy medium. Anymore Suggestions would be apreciated.