As far as it concerns my setup, it is happening with all applications using xv. When having set up e.g. via totem the corrected values, they'll stay until another app is overwriting the settings and/or you're opening another video-window (in that case it will switch back to xshm, and there are other settings needed for correct display). While i810-driver had only wrong contrast-defaults, intel one has additionally insane saturation-settings.
As far as it concerns my setup, it is happening with all applications using xv. When having set up e.g. via totem the corrected values, they'll stay until another app is overwriting the settings and/or you're opening another video-window (in that case it will switch back to xshm, and there are other settings needed for correct display). While i810-driver had only wrong contrast-defaults, intel one has additionally insane saturation- settings.