[MPlayer-users] Where does mplayer store the brightness and contrast?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:06:49PM +0100, Uli Armbruster wrote:
> I just found out that mplayer saves the brightness and contrast. If I change those, quit the video and start another video, the settings remain the same. But I can't find where these settings are stored. There's nothing in ~/.mplayer

MPlayer doesn't save it.
You didn't give much information to go on, but if you are using
XVideo (-vo xv) X/your video driver probably keeps the settings
(just like -ao oss would keep the volume in the driver/hardware).
Explicitly specifying -contrast -brightness ... (or putting
them in the config file) should have the effect of explicitly
resetting them if that's what you want.