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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 setting doesn't save which means each time I start up a video I must always do this. Very annoying.

I've looked through advance preferences and found nothing. I'm using Windows so 0.9.3 if it has been fixed.

Can someone help? Thank you.

Are you using a nVidia card ?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

There is a way to save it in VLC without adjusting your video card.
I discovered this issue as well, and fumbled on how to set it, and
save it in VLC. (0.9.2)
Missing a "save" function on the "extended settings" screen.

1: open any video using VLC
2: right click the playing video screen and go to
"interface/extended settings"
3: go to the "video effects" tab.
4: click the "image adjust" box and set the
brightness, contrast, etc to your liking.
5: click the "Close" button on that adjustment window.
(DON'T QUIT VLC JUST YET-keep that video playing)
If you quit completely by mistake, you have to start over.
6: go to "tools/preferences" and hit the "save" at the bottom.

Now you can quit completely.
VLC should retain those adjustments permanently.
(at least for me it did....Nvidia 7600 AGP)

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.

Great!

There is a way to save it in VLC without adjusting your
video card. I discovered this issue as well, and fumbled on
how to set it, and save it in VLC. (0.9.2)

Thanks, Aquatarkus, for this solution. It works with my
Intel Graphics chip set; I was having the same problem as
geoffrey2008: VLC 0.9.2 doesn't remember the "image adjust"
settings without your step #6. This indicates the problem
is with VLC itself, not geoffrey2008's video card.

In my case, adjusting the video card is the better solution
because I had the problem of the video being way too dark in
all programs which use video overlay, including VLC, PowerDVD,
and Windows Media Player. And also now, thanks to your step #6,
I have the contrast and brightness in VLC permanently back to
center-range.

I am using VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower and for some reason it does not always save my video settings. I tried the instructions above and it saves for a short time but after a while it disables the image adjust settings by removing the mark from the box. It does remember where I had the gamma before so all I need to do is mark the box but its a little annoying to do that every time. It remembers my equalizer settings fine though and I am not sure if it is because I right click files and add them to the playlist or not. I am going to try something right now though and I will let you know if it pans out or not later. Okay I found that if I follow the steps above then make the vlc player settings file (vlcrc) a read only file it will prevent vlc player from removing the mark from the box. However it will still not let the settings stay (the video goes dark again even though the box is marked) I am forced to remove the mark from the box then add it again. I only have this problem when I am using the playlist and playing 1 after the other though not when I open 1 then close vlc before opening the next. Therefore this must be a bug with my version of vlc player. I am using the latest version and so I will now report this bug in the appropriate section. Lastly before anyone says to edit my video card settings I like the way it looks as it is now in everything else but I prefer my movies to have more brightness/gamma so I can see easily. To edit my video card settings every time I want to watch something only to edit them again when I am done is much more of a hassle then checking the box every time it switches to a new video or even not using the add to playlist function altogether.