[gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

[Dale]

Hi,

I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago.  I'm trying to watch it
but it is really dark.  I am using kmplayer with mplayer for the
backend.  I found where it says you can adjust brightness and contrast
but they don't do anything.  The screen looks fine outside of watching a
show.  Here is some emerge info just in case I missed a USE flag or
something:

> root@smoker / # emerge -pv kmplayer mplayer
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731  USE="3dnow X
> aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dv dvd dvdnav enca encode esd faac faad
> gif iconv ipv6 jpeg live mad mmx mng mp2 mp3 network opengl osdmenu
> png quicktime rar real rtc schroedinger sdl shm speex sse tremor
> truetype unicode vorbis win32codecs x264 xscreensaver xv xvid
> -3dnowext -a52 -aalib (-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia
> -cpudetection -custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb
> -doc -dts -dvb -dxr3 -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -jack -joystick
> -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -lzo -md5sum -mmxext -nas -openal -oss -pnm
> -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -samba -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga
> -theora -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau -vidix -xanim -xinerama -xvmc -zoran"
> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa" 0 kB
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/kmplayer-0.10.0c  USE="arts cairo
> gstreamer mplayer -debug -npp -xine -xinerama" LINGUAS="-ar -be -br
> -bs -ca -cs -csb -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -fi -fr -ga -gl -he
> -hi -hu -is -it -ja -ka -lt -mt -nb -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru
> -rw -sk -sr -sr@Latn -sv -ta -tr -uk -zh_CN" 0 kB
>
> Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> root@smoker / #

I also checked the monitor itself and the brightness is all the way up
to the max.  This is a older system but I have a Nvidia FX-5200 video
card which generally works fine for me.  Am I missing something?

Thanks.

Dale

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