[MPlayer-cygwin] mplayer postprocessing makes things worse instead of better?

[Felix Buenemann]

On Thursday 25 December 2003 13:21, Frodo hobbit wrote:
> So I went back to 1.0pre2 and that works
> However i was quite surprised to see that turning on postprocessing makes
> things worse!
> If you turn up the brightness of your monitor a lot and play a movie with
> for example
> -vop pp -autoq 6 or with -vop pp=hb:a/vb:a then watch the black dark areas
> carefully
> you'll notice that there are serious artifacts in those black areas.
> Without postprocessing
> they are perfectly black!
I'd think this is probably caused by the automatic black/white calibration of 
the postprocessing filters. By changing the black level you may also see more 
artifacts which would othereise blend in with the gamma of your crt.
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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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