[MEncoder-users] Black/gray showing as completely black.

[Mike Smith]

On 1/9/07, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it> wrote:
> RC wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:09:21 -0600
> >"Mike Smith" <perlfu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>The result looks great when played back with mplayer, but when I
> >>actually burn it to dvd and view the video on various players it comes
> >>out fairly dark,
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Sounds like it's just the standard black-level issue.
> >
> >Japanese NTSC  (and European dual-standard TVs) use different black
> >levels than (standard) North American NTSC.  With every cheap (Asian)
> >DVD player I've seen, DVDs are just simply darker than they should be
> >(IRE0 instead of IRE7.5).
> >
> >
>
> is this fixable with eq2 or with some other filter?
>
>
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I'd like to know that as well, I've heard some similar things while
googling around to solve my issue.  I've tried pp=al:f.  Haven't tried
eq2 much, haven't gotten great results so far, but maybe I'm using the
filter improperly.  Do you have any suggestions as far as filters, or
some way to convert the black level to the proper ntsc format?