Increasing video brightness in mpeg files

[chewie8008]

I am trying to piece together multiple short clips i've taken w/ my digital camera. However, I have two clips that were recorded at night and they are a little too dark. I played them in Windows Media Player and increased the brightness on there and you can see them a lot better. What free program can I use to increase the brightness in the clips and save them like that(in mpeg format)?

I'd appreciate any help!

[Baldrick]

mpeg1? mpeg2?? mpeg4???

for mpeg1,mpeg2 can you use tmpgenc and under settings->advanced and click on basic color correction.

[chewie8008]

Shortly after I posted this I used VirtualDub and it worked. However I had to save it in AVI in VirtualDub and then convert it back to mpeg2.

Now i'm getting some weird error message when trying to merge video files and am thinking maybe it's from using VirtualDub.

Anyways, thanks!

[celtic_druid]

If it is MPEG-2, you can actually adjust the brightness without re-encoding. This can be done via a specially modified version of MPEG-2 Requant (the transcoder that ReJig was based on).