[MPlayer-users] CRT settings for MPlayer

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 20:33, Roger Andreassen wrote:
> I still have a CRT monitor, it's a Targa 1770, and some night scenes in 
> mplayer is too dark.
> 
> When I see The 4400 on TV it's much brighter in dark or night pictures than 
> off the original DVD. Normally lit pictures are fine, but I can barely make 
> out faces etc if it's dark.
> 
> I've played around with nvidia-settings (have a Gainward Geforce 200mx) but 
> if I set the gamma higher than 1.9 my desktop suffer too much brightness.
> 
> I've heard different 'ideal' settings but the numbers varies from 1.7 to 2.4 
> gamma. Would like to be able to have settings in .mplayer/configure to watch 
> TV, mplayer and web browsing please.

Try -vf eq2
read the man page on how it works