[tmjf_sifu]

dunno if anyone else has this problem, but it is driving me mad. i just recently started watching dvd's on my iBook and have discovered a very annoying phenomenon: all of the movies are VERY dark, to the point they are almost unwatchable. i have some ripped movies on my hard drive that look pretty good, but playing a DVD in the combo drive results in a very dark picture. i have tinkered with the settings ad nauseum:

yes, i have tried to adjust the brightness.
yes, i have calibrated the display, multiple times.
yes, i have looked through all of the preferences.
yes, i have changed the angle of the screen.
yes, i have adjusted the gamma and contrast.

nothing seems to work. i am not sure what is going on here, but it is a pretty aggravating flaw in an otherwise great machine.

anyone have any ideas??

thankz, holden mcgroin

[mrweirdo]

could be the movies mayby? I have seen a few movies that are dark no matter were you play them. have you tried them in some other player ?

[rjenkinson]

use supercal to calibrate your display rather than the standard settings OS X comes with.

-r.

[tmjf_sifu]

thanks for the link. i have d'lded supercal and have run it, but the patterns are not showing up. it seems to be a great program, but i just can't get it to work properly.

dvd's still look terrible. every dvd that i play is bad.

any further advice?? thanks

hm

[tmjf_sifu]

well, i have discovered it is not a display or hardware or movie/dvd issue. i played my dvd's in VLC media player and the picture brightened immediately. the movies appear as one would expect them to appear.

thus, i have a software issue. it is really a shame. i prefer the dvd player bundled with my ibook. now i need to figure out how to reinstall it or at least upgrade it somehow.

anyone have any ideas?? anyone know of any other media players that work well without consuming so much CPU? VLC occupies almost 100% all of the time where as the DVD player bundled with the ibook consumes maybe 50% most of the time.

thanks
hm

[selowitch]

Originally posted by tmjf_sifu:
thus, i have a software issue. it is really a shame.
hm

Are you using the standard DVD Player from Apple? What version?

[cold aspiration]

i have the same exact problems and have calibrated with the built in calibrating software and super cal multiple times. It is defintaly a software issue since the movies once compressed into quicktime or played through vlc has great color. Has anyone found a solution to this yet?

[rjenkinson]

create two profiles, one for general use and one for watching DVDs. switch between the two as needed.

-r.

[cold aspiration]

yeah that is what i've been doing. After a quick search i see that this problem has existed since 2001.. well the beginning of dvd player.

[ghporter]

This definitely sounds like a software issue, not an iBook issue. Let's get it moved appropriately.

[cold aspiration]

yeah i just did a search and apparently this is where it was hm. well does anyone else notice the difference in color?