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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 527946" data-attributes="member: 83973">I agree with kiwijunglist - it looks like you have a video levels problem. Try using the <a href="http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/" target="_blank">LCD monitor test images</a> test patterns to set up the basic desktop levels correctly (the 'Black level' and 'White saturation' patterns are really useful for this purpose).Personally I find the FFDshow MPEG-2 decoder looks a liitle bit washed-out compared to PDVD7/8/9 codecs in MP anyway - the PDVD codecs are probably the best for picture quality (IMHO). Next best is probably the Dscaler 5 codec.To check the video levels, this is a good HD MPEG-2 greyscale pattern - <a href="http://www.w6rz.net/ramp.zip" target="_blank">http://www.w6rz.net/ramp.zip</a> (the dotted vertical lines are at the 16 and 235 levels - these are the standard video black and white levels)- and there are other HD patterns here - <a href="http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=948496" target="_blank">AVS HD 709 - Blu-ray, HD DVD, &amp; MP4 Calibration - AVS Forum</a>. For SD video, try the 'levels.zip' attached to this post - <a href="http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=13939785#post13939785" target="_blank">ATI Radeon HD 2X00 (2400,2600,2900) series owners thread - Page 179 - AVS Forum</a>Tony</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 527946, member: 83973"] I agree with kiwijunglist - it looks like you have a video levels problem. Try using the [url=http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/]LCD monitor test images[/url] test patterns to set up the basic desktop levels correctly (the 'Black level' and 'White saturation' patterns are really useful for this purpose). Personally I find the FFDshow MPEG-2 decoder looks a liitle bit washed-out compared to PDVD7/8/9 codecs in MP anyway - the PDVD codecs are probably the best for picture quality (IMHO). Next best is probably the Dscaler 5 codec. To check the video levels, this is a good HD MPEG-2 greyscale pattern - [URL="http://www.w6rz.net/ramp.zip"]http://www.w6rz.net/ramp.zip[/URL] (the dotted vertical lines are at the 16 and 235 levels - these are the standard video black and white levels)- and there are other HD patterns here - [url=http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=948496]AVS HD 709 - Blu-ray, HD DVD, & MP4 Calibration - AVS Forum[/url]. For SD video, try the 'levels.zip' attached to this post - [url=http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=13939785#post13939785]ATI Radeon HD 2X00 (2400,2600,2900) series owners thread - Page 179 - AVS Forum[/url] Tony [/QUOTE]

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