Re: [xine-user] brightness control

[Pieter V. N. [a. Muts/SUCKER] <suc...@ho...>]

>Try switching it to xv, just to be sure it always uses this.
>

I tried that but does not bring the sliders back. I even upgraded yesterday 
from Mandriva LE 2005 to MAndriva 2006. I did a new pure install on another 
partition.


>
>This seems like tearing to me and the root-cause mostly is that the video
>output windows is not synchronized with the refresh rate of you monitor 
>(e.g.
>video running at 50Hz and monitor running at 70Hz). This is a quite common
>and can be solved in case your video card and software support this 
>feature.
>On nvidia cards you can switch the sync the Vblank (in nvidia-settings) and
>that should fix the issue. For other cards you may try to use the vidix
>output driver, but I'm not sure if support is that well these days.
>

I turned all the Vblank settings with that nvidia config, but my main 
problem stays the brightness control.

>Just a wild guess: Is there any chance that sometimes you've already
>got xine, or some other video-related program, running?  Perhaps this
>could cause the "auto" selection of the output device to end up
>picking a different one, if the device it normally uses is already
>taken and can't be shared.
>
>A quick test would be to just try running two instances of xine at
>once and see if the second one behaves differently.

I tried opening a  few empty xine 'sessions', but this does not change 
anything, and even without those players playing something those sliders are 
not there for the 4 video controls I struggle with.

I have a feeling it used to be not common for those controls to be grayed 
out on some movies in the past, but lately more and more movies became this 
way. And now I can't find one movie where I can adjust the brightness 
anymore... :-(

       Pieter Van Nuffel [aka Muts/SUCKER]

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