xvideo has extra brightness

[Ankit Vani]

When playing videos using xvideo, such as in VLC or totem, there is extra brightness. What should appear black appears grey. The difference is easily visible on videos that do not fill up the whole screen, as there are true black strips around the video. The extra brightness can be rectified by using "xvattr -a XV_BRIGHTNESS -v -60", but I have to do that everytime on startup (I have added it to startup applications as "Fix AVIVO's brightness issue").

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: fglrx 2:8.881-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,snap,place,imgpng,compiztoolbox,gnomecompat,grid,move,vpswitch,mousepoll,resize,regex,session,unitymtgrabhandles,wall,animation,expo,workarounds,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sat Sep 17 14:24:21 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-02 13:23:21.116927
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 fglrx, 8.881, 3.0.0-10-generic, x86_64: installed
 fglrx, 8.881, 3.0.0-11-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] [1002:68c0] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02fe]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
JockeyStatus:
 kmod:fglrx - ATI Fire GL (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
 xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio XPS 1645
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=dabcc9da-5f0e-411a-9d27-8d9eb8dde0af ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (15 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/11/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A09
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A09
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A09
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA09:bd05/11/2010:svnDellInc.:pnStudioXPS1645:pvrA09:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvrA09:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA09:
dmi.product.name: Studio XPS 1645
dmi.product.version: A09
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.94+bzr2803-0ubuntu5
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu22
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hey a-nevitus,

Hi, thanks for reporting this issue during the development period of
Ubuntu.

I notice there's not been further comments to the bug report since the
release came out, would you mind updating us on the status of it in the
release?

Are you still able to reproduce the issue? If not, do you think the bug
report can be closed, or do you think we should continue tracking it?

[Ankit Vani (ankitkv)]

Checked. There is no issue in the stable version. Brightness is fine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]