[MPlayer-users] Screenshot color wrong

[Alexander Strasser]

Am 5. September 2020 14:05:02 MESZ schrieb Polyphem <polyphem at gmail.com>:
>Hi Alexander,
>
>the visual impression is that of a red-shift, all colors look a little 
>more red on PNG than on the MPlayer output.
>
>Here's a side-by-side PNG screen-print. With a color picker you can see
>
>on the left the PNG with max. red~230 and on the right the MPlayer 
>output with max. red = 255.
>
>https://drive.google.com/file/d/110-bzG4i9FJR0X8LEGHjOhadkXd7Kpdt/view?usp=sharing
>
>The movies are created with "TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 7", with 
>these settings:
>
>
>H.264/AVC
>Color Profile >
>YUV Format: 4:2:0
>Color Range: Compressed (16-235)
>Color Depth: 8 Bit
>Color Space: Automatic (ITU-R BT.709)
>
>
>It seems as if on the MPlayer display output the compressed color range
>
>is uncompressed correctly, on the PNG the scaler used seems to display 
>the still compressed color range.

Could you try starting mplayer with -vo gl ?
Does the output look more similar to the PNG?


  Alexander