[mythtv-users] Mythtv UI and Playback much too dark, colors out of balance

Jeremy Crandell cymerej at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 4 16:01:43 UTC 2012


Last week I did an apt-get upgrade on my mythbuntu system and ever since then my my blacks have been messed up.  The picture is too dark to see what is going on with most videos, unless the video is of an outdoor scene .  The colors aren't balanced either; sometime too red, sometime too green.  I have tried adjusting the contrast, brightness, and gamma both with the nvidia-settings tool and on the TV.  These adjustments have an effect and make it passable, but the adjustments taht I make for one video are too much or too little for the next.  I find that I have to adjust the settings for whatever video I'm watching just so I can se what is going on.  I played back some video with VLC and the color was fine.  


The issue was bugging me so much that I backed up and reinstalled yesterday
 hoping that would fix the problem.  It didn't.

My system has an Athalon II processeor, Muthbuntu 12.04 64-bit, GeForce 210 video card, conncted to LCD HD TV via HDMI.  I am using the post-release nvidia driver from the ubuntu repositories.  I have VDPAU set to Normal.

Any suggestions?

Jeremy C
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