new monitor...DVDs looks horrible in full screen

[ShadowBlade]

So I got a new monitor (Sceptre 20.1" LCD 1680x1050) and DVDs look absolutely horrible in full screen. They're extremely dark and they look kind of like I'm looking at the monitor from a bad angle, no matter what angle I look at it from. Everything else looks amazing. Tried watching movies with Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player and PowerDVD. Power DVD was the only one that actually worked when I tried to go to full screen. DVDs worked fine on my old monitor and thats the only thing I've changed. AVI files work fine in fullscreen.

Anyone know what to do to make them work? I was rather looking forward to widescreen (for the first time) and its disappointing for them not to work right.

 

[Tyhr]

Change the resolution of the monitor to match the res of the DVD? It's probably doing some weird upscaling at the moment.
Sadly, with LCD's, there's the "native" resolution issue that CRT's don't have. But give it a shot to see. (Try 800x600 and 1024x768 - or whatever the widescreen equivalent is)

 

[ShadowBlade]

That seemed to help a little, but it was still really dark. I've tried it with the brightness all the way up, it didn't help at all.

 

[inveterate]

Check if the DVD works well on ur other monitors. Use VLC. if that doesn't work Try PowerDvd, and turn on the Post processing thing. it brightens Dvds. but try VLC first

 

[ShadowBlade]

They work fine on my SD tv played through my 360 - Ill try VLC later tomorrow.

 

[TheRyuu]

ffdshow for the resizing of it.

As for the color part, you'll have to configure it too your liking.

Guide for ffdshow (for DVD's):
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1930617

 

[ShadowBlade]

So every time I try to run the ffdshow installer, my computer crashes. The hard drive spins down, fans shut off, and it restarts.

EDIT: It looks the same using VLC.

 

[ShadowBlade]

Finally got it installed and working (as per the guide in wizboy11's post) but its extremely choppy. I assume this process is CPU intensive?

 

[acruxksa]

You are expecting too much if you want dvd's to look as good as everything else. They are 720x480 and when playing them full screen you are essentially expanding the picture to 1650x1080. It's no different than trying to use a 720x480 picture as a background image on your desktop, no matter what you do it will look terrible. Also, don't forget that you usually sit a lot closer to your monitor than a TV. The picture can be improved with some software tweaks, but it is really never going to be great.

MediaPlayerClassic is a pretty light player that you might want to try. You can adjust brightness of the video by right clicking on the picture and choosing filters->mpeg-2 video decoder-> and adjusting brightness, contrast, hue and saturation sliders to your preference. You should also sit back 4-5ft. when watching a movie on your monitor.

 

[inveterate]

Take a screenshot of ur outputed image.

Expanding to 1680x1050 is no big deal. Mine is out to 2560x1600 and the DVD still looks Great from 4 feet away.

I don't think it's his monitor that's the problem. Try latest drivers. Klite codec pack.. VLC SHOULDN"T give you choppiness. My system is similar to Yours and i have no problems. I've also used VLC on my dad's 2.4 Pentium 4 and it works just fine.

 

[ShadowBlade]

Using MPC - it looks fine now as far as my original problems went, but now running ffdshow, its choppy.
I've tried closing everything except explorer and stuff the task manager wont let me close, and it didnt change anything.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: acruxksa
You are expecting too much if you want dvd's to look as good as everything else. They are 720x480 and when playing them full screen you are essentially expanding the picture to 1650x1080. It's no different than trying to use a 720x480 picture as a background image on your desktop, no matter what you do it will look terrible. Also, don't forget that you usually sit a lot closer to your monitor than a TV. The picture can be improved with some software tweaks, but it is really never going to be great.

MediaPlayerClassic is a pretty light player that you might want to try. You can adjust brightness of the video by right clicking on the picture and choosing filters->mpeg-2 video decoder-> and adjusting brightness, contrast, hue and saturation sliders to your preference. You should also sit back 4-5ft. when watching a movie on your monitor.

Not to mention it's a 480i source and not 480p

 

[inveterate]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: acruxksa
You are expecting too much if you want dvd's to look as good as everything else. They are 720x480 and when playing them full screen you are essentially expanding the picture to 1650x1080. It's no different than trying to use a 720x480 picture as a background image on your desktop, no matter what you do it will look terrible. Also, don't forget that you usually sit a lot closer to your monitor than a TV. The picture can be improved with some software tweaks, but it is really never going to be great.

MediaPlayerClassic is a pretty light player that you might want to try. You can adjust brightness of the video by right clicking on the picture and choosing filters->mpeg-2 video decoder-> and adjusting brightness, contrast, hue and saturation sliders to your preference. You should also sit back 4-5ft. when watching a movie on your monitor.

Not to mention it's a 480i source and not 480p

that's why i got a PS3