MPC - change brightness, contrast etc.

[planetrock]

Does MPC have an ordinary user-friendly way to change brightness, contrast and saturation like VLC Player does? (on VLC under Tools > Effects and Filters, or ctrl-E)

AFAIK MPC only has extremely technical menus for things like renderers and filters and decoders that require highly advanced digital video experience. I have none of that and I have no idea what a renderer, filter or decoder is and learning is not an option because I don't have the time to become a professional digital video editor. If there's anything other than a simple slider that says "brightness", I won't be able to use it.

For that matter - is this the best forum for MPC? I spent a long time digging around the internet. There's one MPC forum at Sourgeforge that is completely dead (a couple posts *per year*) and I can't find anything more focused on MPC than this one.

[Gravitator]

Hi,
Options > Miscellaneous

[planetrock]

Hi,
Options > Miscellaneous
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Thanks. I never would have thought to look there!

[El Heggunte]

Hi,
Options > Miscellaneous

Thanks. I never would have thought to look there!

Probably because

learning is not an option

for you

[hello_hello]

Hi,
Options > Miscellaneous
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Thanks. I never would have thought to look there!

It appears to get the colour controls to work you'll need to be using either the VMR9, EVR or MadVR renderer. You can check which renderer is set under the Output section in options. If you change renderers you'll need to restart MPC-HC.

Speaking of the colour controls....
I've never been able to get them to work regardless of the renderer. I've not bothered caring though because I'd rarely use them, but seeing as the subject's come up..... does anyone know if they should work when running XP?

[jagabo]

There are proc amp controls in the graphics card's Control Panel applet. That applet can block MPCHC from changing its proc amp controls.

[El Heggunte]

Speaking of the colour controls....
I've never been able to get them to work regardless of the renderer. I've not bothered caring though because I'd rarely use them, but seeing as the subject's come up..... does anyone know if they should work when running XP?

They work fine under XP, as long as the video card and its drivers are O.K.

[hello_hello]

LOL! Thanks guys. Now I feel silly. It's the video card drivers.

I have the video card set to expand TV levels to PC levels, and it didn't occur to me that'd be stopping MPC-HC from adjusting brightness/contrast etc, but it's all or nothing in the Nvidia control panel.

I guess that's somewhere else planetrock could adjust things rather than use the player to do it. jagabo's provided an example of the Intel Control Panel. The Nvidia one looks like this on XP.