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I wanted to adjust the brightness because the darks look blue rather than black, so I went the brightness slider and it did nothing. I enabled every thing, 'Image Adjust', 'Brightness Threshold', it simply does not affect the video (Game of Thrones .mkv). I tried others like 'color' (I think that's ...

http://imgur.com/a/S1emC You can see how bright the movie's "black bars" look compared to VLC's. This happens with other movies as well. It's very distracting. Any way to make this darker?

Edit: solved