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Videos very dark

Today I installed my new PC, but every video I want to play (DivX AVI, Flash) is pretty dark. What could cause this?

What video player are you using? Is everything else at the appropriate brightness? Have you checked your monitor? Video card?

Consider updating DirectX, video card drivers, and video player if applicable.

I'm using Windows Media Player for video playback, but obviously FireFox for Flash videos.
The brightness of other things are fine. Played quite some games today to test around and none of them gave any problems. Monitor and videocard are fine (and new/barely used).
DirectX is 9.0c, Nvidia drivers are up to date and WMP is version 11. FireFox is verion 2.

Sounds like NVidia is to blame

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion...hp?t19904.html

Quote:

Originally Posted by http://www.codecguide.com

We have seen several reports and questions all over the Internet from people that are having display problems. Symptons include very dark video playback. This problem is not caused by codecs. It is caused by bad nVidia drivers, which configure themselves incorrectly.

If you are experiencing such issues, here are some tips to solve your problems:

Go to your graphics card control panel. Reset all settings to their default values. Important settings are Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Gamma. You can access the control panel via: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced.
Go to your graphics card control panel. Select the "Color Correction" page. Select "All" in the dropdown box called "Apply color changes to:". Then click on the button called "Restore Defaults".
Go to your graphics card control panel. Open the "video and television" options. (You need to be in the advanced view). Select "adjust video colour settings", then select "correction". Hit "do not use colour temperature correction".
If resetting the settings does not help, then find an older version of the drivers (for example v84.21). Uninstall your current drivers, reboot, and install the older ones.

Hope this helps.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

Sounds like NVidia is to blame

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion...hp?t19904.html
[/LIST]Hope this helps.

The second thing worked great, thanks a lot. Case closed.