[MPlayer-users] Brightness/Contrast controls only available with "-vo x11" ?

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 12 July 2003, Will Dormann wrote:
> I'm trying to get the brightness/contrast set for use with MythVideo (a 
> MythTV add-on)
> But I can't seem to get the command line switches to work.
> 
> I try using "-vo xv -brightness <n>" as options, but I get a message 
> from mplayer saying that the attribute 'brightness' is not supported by 
> selected vo &vd.    Here's a sample output from mplayer:
[...] 
> Why are brightness and contrast not available using XV (or SDL)?

Maybe because your XVideo driver doesn't support it? Check the output
of `xvinfo`.

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