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mamas6667

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Registered: 2007-12-27

Posts: 12

mplayer too dark, Equalizer(Contrast,Brightness,Hue,Saturation)

Playing videos on mplayer were too dark!
and Equalizer -> Video (Contrast,Brightness,Hue,Saturation) controls were unavailable/not working!

After some research, I found a solution, for both problems.
Using information on this URL http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html

Open a Filemanager as root, and go to /etc/mplayer and create a file called mplayer.conf, and paste this code inside.

# Write your default config options here!
# eq[=brightness:contrast] (OBSOLETE)
# default:0:0
#
# eq2[=gamma:contrast:brightness:saturation:rg:gg:bg:weight]
# default:1.0:1.0:0.0:1.0:1.0:1.0:1.0:1.0
#
# hue[=hue:saturation]
# default:0.0:1.0
vf=hue=0.0:1.0,eq2=1.0:1.0:0.1:1.0:1.0:1.0:1.0:1.0

Remember to leave 3 empty lines at the end of the code, before saving.

Notice I changed the 3rd default value in eq2 from 0.0 to 0.1, this will appear as 10 in the equalizer.
This 10% increase in brightness gave me a brightness, similar to watching the same video in VLC.

Well I hope it helps someone else having the same issue. :-)