On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:38:13 -0400 "Firon Draak" <firondraak at gmail.com> wrote: > In any case, is there any way to work around this problem on playback > with mplayer without re-encoding the videos? Yes, turn up the brightness/gamma/contrast with MPlayer. If your -vo doesn't support it, add eq2 to your filter chain.