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I adjusted the brightness for video using Nvidia control panel and was able to get the image better than any other way before. This only adjusted the image for VLC which is good so the image in other players (which was fine) was not effected. Its pretty close to how it used to be before so should be...

Tried it but didnt help. I also noticed that when I take a snapshot the picture I get has good quality and normal lighting unlike the video. Hope this helps in figuring out what could be wrong.

Sometimes this is associated with video output modules; try a different one, the recommend one is "DirectX video output". tried this but didnt help. I guess ill have to try installing new drivers. The weird thing is VLC used to work just fine before and seems as if some "darken"...

i did that when installing the new version but still no better. only thing that helped a bit was turning the brightness up (atleast makes it so you can see something if the video has something pretty dark like scenes at night) but its still not the same as it used to be.

VLC picture has become dark somehow for me. It used to work fine but then a few days ago i tried playing a file and the video was very dark. Then i tried files i had played before and they too had become dark. Other media players work fine with bright pictures. Ive tryed adjusting the brightness in ...