Potplayer & Color Spaces

[vdoep86]

I am using Potplayer installed on my laptop with the "Lav Filters Megamix" installer.

I feel the picture I get is far too dark.

I wanted to know how to correctly set up the Colorspace settings in Potplayer.

I can't find any documentation on this & any change in the Colorspace settings I make doesn't seem to result to any difference in the picture.

Can anyone help??

Thanks!

[newpball]

First thing you have to do is to calibrate your monitor?

Did you do that?

[vdoep86]

Actually I haven't. Thought I have looked it up before, but I've never find a straight forward answer on how best to calibrate a laptop display...

How do I do it?

[newpball]

Actually I haven't. Thought I have looked it up before, but I've never find a straight forward answer on how best to calibrate a laptop display...

How do I do it?

Easy:

http://spyder.datacolor.com/portfolio-view/spyder4pro/

[vdoep86]

I am not looking to buy any calibration kit though.

I don't need pin point accuracy, I just figured something is set wrong considering how dark the video picture is in potplayer.

[newpball]

I am not looking to buy any calibration kit though.

Well then you cannot calibrate your monitor.

It is impossible to calibrate a monitor with the naked eye.

[katipo]

I am using Potplayer installed on my laptop with the "Lav Filters Megamix" installer.
I feel the picture I get is far too dark.
I wanted to know how to correctly set up the Colorspace settings in Potplayer.
I can't find any documentation on this & any change in the Colorspace settings I make doesn't seem to result to any difference in the picture.
Can anyone help??
Thanks!

I found little difference playing with Colorspaces, you shouldn't really need to tweak these anyway. I use PotPlayer every day, but I'm not up to date with the latest betas. I suggest you choose a version that uses the built-in FFmpeg codecs/filters (is Lav mandatory now?), then select a video render method (Prefs/Video/Renderer). I use 'VMR 9 Renderless' on XP, and 'EVR Custom' on Win7. Then play with the Colors [F7] Control Panel, or [Q, W,E,R,T,Y,U,I,O]: Brgt, Contr, Sat, Hue. There's also Video Processing to play with: e.g. Sharpness [Ctl+R]. NB: You may need to first disable hardware decoding for these color adjustments to work.

I still use a very old stable ver (1.5.35491) that does all I need, and just leave it at that (if it ain't broken). If the latest version isn't useful, have a look through the archived old versions. https://www.videohelp.com/tools/PotPlayer/old-versions#download