DVD - Colors worn out - Not fixed :(

[MrOrsh]

When I play a DVD in PowerDVD8 it looks great.
But when playing trough MediaPortal the colors look all gray and worn out.

I have selected Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder as the DVD Video Decoder, but still doesn´t work.
Other than PowerDVD8 I have ffdshow and Core AVC installed on the computer.

This seemes to be a usual problem: Why are the black levels so off on my DVD playback?

I´ve tried the levels "fix" in ffdshow, but it doesn´t seem to affect the picture at all.
I´m all out of options here, just when I got every other file format to run smoothly this happends


Edit: I actually think I solved the problem! Not in a perfect way I guess, but at least it works for now, and I think the picture is really good, black is black and not gray (perhaps spelled grey? anyway).

What I did was that I enter the expert mode in MP configurator and selected DirectShow Filters, then MPV. Then I pressed the "TV Defaults" - button which rearanged the contrast and brightness. I then selected the MPV as the codec for DVD and voila, there it was! All black and beautiful! I also did try using ffdshow to post-process the video, don´t know if it actually made any difference but I´ll keep it on the post-processing since I´m happy with the way the picture look now.
Finaly I´ve solved all codec and playback problems and can now move on to the fun part - costumizing my skin and make it look the way I want

I however have a question regarding the MPV-codec, is this somewhat a "low-budget" codec that you really shouldn´t use. Or is it recomended to use as long as it works satisfying?

Edit 2: I guess the MPV really is a low-budget coded. Especially cartoon/animated movies looks, well, like hell.
So the problem remain. Have tried uninstalling the ffdshow codec but the picture looks just as gray anyway :/

[montecristo]

Hi MrOrsh,

i also have a similar problem.
see my thread about a "strange audio problem"

what i did and i recommend this to you as well is installing graphedit.
then you render one of your videofiles and see which codec is being used.
then if needed you can change the decoder by inserting a new graph, disconnecting the pins and reconnect with the new codecs.
if you right click on a codec you can select the settings of that particular codec.

i found out that selecting a codec in MP has no effect whatsoever.
in my case it is always using nvidia codecs. i tried to connect to the pdvd codecs but i'm not able to connect the pins. i have no idea why.
but it might work for you.

let me know if it works to get the pdvd codecs connected.

i attached a file with graphedit.

montecristo