From: Pieter V. N. [a. Muts/SUCKER] <suc...@ho...> - 2006-03-09 15:20:40
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Hi all! I'm using Xine v0.99.3 on Mandriva LE 2005. How come, with some movies that I play (straight avi's), sometimes the brightness and contrast options are blurred out so they are unusable (so are hue and saturation)? Is this because the current codec needed for that movie does not support there features or is it a lack of this functionality within the Xine code? I know this is supposed to be a regular user mailing list, but I'm a user, aren't I? (I ask because some movies are particularly dark and my room is not very suited to make it dark...) Pieter Van Nuffel [aka Muts/SUCKER] -- UNOX - soep was nog nooit zo stabiel (dutch) dependency hell? => /bin/there/done/that |
From: Marcel J. <ko...@ho...> - 2006-03-09 17:52:35
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Hi Pieter, > How come, with some movies that I play (straight avi's), sometimes the > brightness and contrast options are blurred out so they are unusable (so > are hue and saturation)? Is this because the current codec needed for that > movie does not support there features or is it a lack of this functionality > within the Xine code? I'm not sure if there's anything codec related with these controls. Are you sure you're always using the same output plugin (xv, xshm, opengl) ? > I know this is supposed to be a regular user mailing list, but I'm a user, > aren't I? yes. regards, Marcel > UNOX - soep was nog nooit zo stabiel (dutch) Je maag alleen wat minder stabiel na een blik erwtensoep :-) |
From: Pieter V. N. [a. Muts/SUCKER] <suc...@ho...> - 2006-03-10 09:40:38
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> >I'm not sure if there's anything codec related with these controls. >Are you sure you're always using the same output plugin (xv, xshm, opengl) >? > The video driver to use is on 'auto', so I don't know which one is selected normally. And even then, I would presume it's always the same. I also did a quick check to play multiple movies with different codecs (divx, xvid, div3 (=divx v3?) div4) but there was no difference in wether the brightness & such controls were active. (And also, from time to time, I can see a horizontal line somwhere in the movie output (with al movie players I have installed) where the movie above and below that line do not run in sync, so when there is a very active scene I can see the image not being completely right. Very bizarre!) Pieter Van Nuffel [aka Muts/SUCKER] -- UNOX - soep was nog nooit zo stabiel dependency hell? => /bin/there/done/that |
From: Dave D. <do...@do...> - 2006-03-14 10:23:34
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:40:32AM +0100, Pieter Van Nuffel [aka Muts/SUCKER] wrote: > >Are you sure you're always using the same output plugin (xv, xshm, opengl) > > The video driver to use is on 'auto', so I don't know which one is selected > normally. And even then, I would presume it's always the same. 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. -Dave Dodge |
From: Marcel J. <ko...@ho...> - 2006-03-14 18:49:51
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On Friday 10 March 2006 10:40, Pieter Van Nuffel [aka Muts/SUCKER] wrote: > The video driver to use is on 'auto', so I don't know which one is selected > normally. And even then, I would presume it's always the same. Try switching it to xv, just to be sure it always uses this. > I also did a quick check to play multiple movies with different codecs > (divx, xvid, div3 (=divx v3?) div4) but there was no difference in wether > the brightness & such controls were active. Depending on your video card capabilities, these controls may be active. I really don't think that the video format has any influence on this. > (And also, from time to time, I can see a horizontal line somwhere in the > movie output (with al movie players I have installed) where the movie above > and below that line do not run in sync, so when there is a very active > scene I can see the image not being completely right. Very bizarre!) 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. Regards, Marcel |
From: Pieter V. N. [a. Muts/SUCKER] <suc...@ho...> - 2006-03-14 18:57:35
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>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] -- UNOX - soep was nog nooit zo stabiel dependency hell? => /bin/there/done/that |