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Use Vista drivers.

Works perfectly.

Thank you very much.

Its an Nvidia 8800GTS 512MB

So I use the Vista drivers and not the Windows 7 specific drivers?

Pretty common issue according to SevenForums.com , anyone know of any fixes or workarounds?

Windows 7 is great but I'll be lost without VLC. Anyone any suggestions?

Latest video drivers/updates installed. Latest version of VLC installed.

geoffrey2008, you might find this helpful:
Tip: setting brightness for video overlay on graphics cards

I used this and it seems to be OK now.

That was my post

Any idea how this is done in Nvidia?

Your colouring issues is a nVidia driver issue.
Deactivate RGB-YUV hardware acceleration.

How exactly is this done? Google shows nothing and either does browsing through the Nvidia settings.

Are you using a nVidia card ?

Yes. 8800GT.

I know I can adjust the settings in the Manager or whatever but I don't want to change the settings for my whole PC display just VLC player.

The old VLC didn't have a problem with this and remembered the last value I used.

Alright so everytime I start a video in VLC its quite obvious the video stream is a lot brighter than what it should be so each time I must go into the advanced settings and push the slider slightly to the left in order to match the black border with what should be black on the screen however this s...