Bob Self wrote:
>
> Phil Ehrens wrote:
> >
> > Just guessing, but since the problem seems to be a sync issue,
> > maybe let mplayer handle the audio as well. Change raw to mplayer.
>
> That did it. I saw a fairly dramatic difference. Part of the video
> looks better (lighter parts), but darker part lost detail.
> I did find a warm / cool / native setting on the LCD monitor and
> setting that to warm helped quite a bit. I also raised the contrast
> level from the default and that helped. It just seems that maybe
> LCD monitors don't or can't reproduce TV quality video colors.
My LCD TV looks MUCH better than any analog TV. It's an LG, and it
has full color control available from the remote... I can bend it
any old way in a few seconds. HOWEVER, I usually use the eq2 filter,
which does gamma, contrast, brightness, saturation, AND also has
RGB color balancing options. Read the eq2 section of the mplayer
man page and then give the options a spin. The darker parts losing
detail that you described was because the options I gave you
mostly just boosted the contrast and darkened the picture!
>From your description I would try:
-vf eq2=0.9:0.9:-0.05:1.1
and
-vf eq2=0.9:1.1:0.05:1.1
Which should tell you which way you need to go.
As for a histogram... Can you look at a histogram and make a decision
about how the result will look? I sure can't. But I can extrapolate
from how things look on my computer using the eq2 to how it will look
on analog and digital TV's... But that's only after a LOT of mistakes!
Woah... I underquoted... My bad.
