[MPlayer-users] Increasing brightness via config

[Curtis Magyar]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:59 -0700, Rob Prowel wrote:
> 
> >I switched my TV-Out display to an older 32" TV, and
> its display is
> >rather dark even with the TV's brightness control set
> to its highest
> >level.  MPlayer compensates for this if I increase
> its brightness by
> >hitting the '4' key a few times.  I've tried to put
> this in my ~/.
> >mplayer/config by adding 'brightness=15', but it
> doesn't seem to apply
> >this until I press 3 or 4 to adjust the brightness
> manually which it
> >then adjusts relative to what I have set in the
> config.  Does anyone
> >know of a workaround to make it apply this setting
> initially, for
> >everything I play?
> 
> I've submitted TWO bug reports about this exact
> problem in two different versions of mplayer and none
> of the developers even acknowledged my report.  It
> worked once upon a time but became broken sometime in
> 0.99.
> 
> mplayer no longer recognizes -brightness or -contrast
> command line options until a menu key is explicitely
> pressed.


Okay, I guess that sets me on the right track.  I'll try to remember to
CC you, if I come up with a corrective patch.

--
Curtis

P.S. What email application did you post that with?  I'll have to add it
to my list of most hated programs.  It broke the thread, and messed up
the quoting very badly.