Output to bright

[Jenny Lööw]

When I start totem-xine the logo is to bright and the video as well, and when I start with totem-gstreamer only the video is to bright. I've had this problem since I dist-upgraded from hoary to breezy. This problem still occur with breezy-backports (Nafallo's idea). What can I do to debug this for you?

My hardware: http://www.magicalforest.se/silverfairy/

Cheers, Jenny (gothcat)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You can change the bright from the preferences of the app

[Jenny Lööw (gothcat)]

lör 2006-01-07 klockan 15:07 +0000 skrev Sebastien Bacher:
> You can change the bright from the preferences of the app

I've tried, it doesn't help. It still to bright. It's like the contrast
is always at maximum and the slider doesn't change that.

Cheers
--
Jenny Lööw <email address hidden>

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Does this also happen for other videosinks? You could try different ones in 'gstreamer-properties'.

[Jenny Lööw (gothcat)]

sön 2006-01-08 klockan 10:54 +0000 skrev Daniel Holbach:
> Does this also happen for other videosinks? You could try different
> ones in 'gstreamer-properties'.

The contrast looks good when I change videosinks. But gstreamer lags a
lot so I can't use it.
--
Jenny Lööw <email address hidden>

[Eric Schwartz (emschwar-ericschwartz)]

I have this same problem as well; video played under mplayer looks great (but I massively dislike the UI), but totem looks like somebody turned up the brightness and contrast controls. If I tweak it a lot, then at best it looks less ugly, but never good.

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

Eric, what gfxchipset do you use? Just to find a common factor ;-).

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks a lot, but we need to know which version of Ubuntu you use, which totem version, which videosink, how the values are (before you tweak), how they should be and which video driver for X.org you use.

[Eric Schwartz (emschwar-ericschwartz)]

I'm running:

* Ubuntu Dapper
* totem-xine 1.3.92-0ubuntu1
* default values (no tweaking done at all)
* video driver is i810

As for tweaking the setup to look right, I can't. I've tried tweaking it every way possible, and I cannot make totem-xine play a video looking right. xine-ui looks fine, as does mplayer, so I can only assume something in how totem-xine sets up the library is causing the problem. Thsi happens with every video I play through totem-xine.

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

I can see this bug when I use totem-xine or totem-gstreamer with XV output.

My video driver is an i810 too.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Ccing slomo, maybe he knows about the issue, that's probably due to xine since using gstreamer works correctly according to a previous comment

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

I never heard of this before and all my movies are working fine with totem-xine, totem-gstreamer and gxine on current dapper... the brightness is fine with the default brightness settings but could be changed to far too dark and far too bright ;)

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

But I use the 'radeon' driver... so it's probably really a problem with the driver...

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

I just tried this on Jenny's up-to-date dapper. Both -xine and -gstreamer still sucks, but on gstreamer I could adjust the contrast slider a far bit down to get decent output. I compared to my working laptop and it seems I can get it almost equal with changing contrast. This should work out-of-the-box with the default values though.

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

slomo and I debugged some, and I got some strange results ;-).

(totem-gstreamer)
gstreamer: xvimagesink broken. ximagesink works.

(xine-ui)
xine: xv, xxmc, xvmc, sdl broken. xshm works.

(mplayer-nogui)
mplayer: xv, sdl broken. x11 works.

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

After discussion with slomo, reassigning this to the xorg-driver.

[Javier Sanchez (javiersanp)]

Hello.
I have the same problem that gothcat. When I try to view any video with totem, the bright is really high. I have to put it manually to 0 to view more or less fine.
My distro is guadalinex v3 (guadalinex.org), a derivade from Ubuntu. I have a Ubuntu distro installed in another partition and the problem don't occur with it. The problem is only with totem, don't happen with mplayer or gXine. My video device is Intel 82852/855GM in a ACER travelmate 4050.
Regards.

[Joe Van Dyk (joevandyk)]

I'm seeing the same thing using the i810 driver on a 945GM chipset (intel 950a graphics).

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Change status to confirmed.

[Sandino Flores (tigrux)]

Just to mention it still happens in Ubuntu Dapper:

totem-xine 1.4.1-0ubuntu2
xserver-xorg-d 1.4.1.3-0ubuntu5

[János Illés (ijanos)]

Xubuntu 6.06 - intel 855GM

After I installed gxine itt messed up the Xv video output by setting the XV_CONTRAST deafult to 116 from 64.
Everthing is normal after using the xvattr to set XV_CONTRAST to 64.

Maybe it's something about xine deafults and not the i810 driver.

[Sean "Diggity" O'Brien (seandiggity)]

I had this same problem with Feisty on an Intel 855GM with the i810 driver. I fixed it by using xvattr to set XV_CONTRAST to 64 as described in the previous post.