Vlc media player washed out

If you notice differences in black levels, you may want to make a small change to the system's configuration to address the issue and resolve it. Try the following fix once you have come to the conclusion that black levels may look washed out in VLC Media Player:.

Note that you may want to make the change for all connected monitors. Just click on the other monitors to activate them on the Video Color Settings of the Nvidia Control Panel and enable the Full setting for the dynamic range for them.

Check out the following video that highlights the difference the setting can make:. The level of black improved on one system while I did not notice a difference on the other. VideoLan suggests that VLC Media Player users make other changes to the system if the Nvidia Control Panel settings change does not result in improvements in this regard. Strange, which driver version is installed on your system?

If you cannot make the change, try the other changes listed in the guide. No such option in my Nvidia control panel, using driver version The only option I have is 3D settings. Never understood why Nvidia defaults to that value. I always change it as soon as I install my drivers. For those that are missing these options: If you are on a laptop you will not have it, as your screen is rendered by your Intel HD chip. Nvidia kicks in only for specific apps e.

This has been a thing with VLC for like a decade. I seldom use the newest driver, still using driver Color accuracy and black levels all look very good with my installed browsers. Most of that is probably because of my Dell U monitor, and I also made some about:config changes for FF based browsers. TVs use the limited colour range where anything below 16 is pure black and above is pure white.

A game gets converted from to otherwise you would lose 16 shades of black they would all look the same shade of black and 20 shades of white they would all look the same shade of white , so we avoid black crush and white crush. Users that connect the graphics card to their HDTV have the correct colour range by default, , so all content will display as it should.

Unfortunately this means PC users that connect the graphics card to their monitor have a limited colour range so we lose 16 shades of black and 20 shades of white. We have to fix this by changing it to RGB Full. This started happening here yesterday, I was on a driver release that it has already affected by this issue What I find strange is that I was using Firefox with the driver mentioned above until now, without any problems whatsover.

Thanks much! Switching to DirectX DirectDraw solved the problem on my new win10 computer! Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up.

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