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

[Trent Piepho]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, 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).

If this is the case, one would expect commercials DVDs to be too black too,
right?  Or at least, the should be blacker on the TV and when played back
on the computer, the same way mencoder produced DVDs are.