create video to different formats from images (read reason inside)

[kebrus]

hi there, let me explain my situation first, because maybe the solution is not what i want or think it is

some years ago i notice something strange in some of my video files, they weren't exactly like the screencaps of the video, the colors were a bit different, generally darker with dimmed colors, as time passed i learned more about codecs but i also got new video formats with the same problem, so today i use cccp codec pack (latest version, default settings), mainly because of my anime video files, and i use mpc to play them, it simply plays all the different video formats of my "collection", thing is a ton of them (if not all) have the problem i just stated, i pretty sure the problems comes from either cccp or mpc (most probably) simply because i noticed the problems some years ago in the exact moment i started using them, but i don't want to try a different configuration, because i have a ton of video files formats and i actually like mpc

i also have coreavc and nvidia decoder, coreavc because it's faster for h264 and nvidia decoder because i have some videos (some mpeg formats) with a lot of "interlacing" problems and ffdshow options don't do much for them while nvidia decoder manages to "erase" it just fine

so because i have that problem i thought to trying to correct it by either adjusting the decoders calibration parameters (contrast, etc) or adjusting in mpc itself, problem is the same video with different decoders makes different results, so i thought of creating a video with some color charts that i would make myself in different formats and then try to match the different videos in the different formats to the original image, so that way i would know for sure if the video i'm watching has the intended colors or not

probably this isn't the best solution, but i don't want to leave mpc nor do i want to leave cccp and start having playback problems because i'm missing a codec

so basically what i'm asking is a simple program to create videos in different formats from still images

thx in advacne

[redwudz]

You can use a video editor, duplicate frames enough for a minute or two of video. I've done that with VirtualDub, but AVISynth is a better choice. That at least for AVI type formats. Or create a high quality reference file with the HuffyUV codec, then convert that to different formats. But then you get into encoder settings.

But I think your problem is in your video card drivers and their settings or your monitor settings. If it were just decoder settings, just about everyone would have the same problems.

And welcome to our forums.

[kebrus]

thx for the reply and suggestion

well the problem can't be the graphic drivers since i've formated my pc some times and even got a new graphic board but now that you mention it maybe it has something to do with the monitor and the settings from the graphic board, this because i had a similar problem with images coming from photoshop, basically my monitor displays a very dark image even with brightness maxed out, but i manage to solve it my bumping up the gamma on my graphic card control panel, but photoshop didn't like it and in some formats the image would bright up all by it self simply by opening it, the problem was that photoshop was using the wrong monitor profile, so i had to install an application to manage monitor profiles and then tell photoshop to use the correct one, i never thought it could influence videos, is there a way to find out?

[kebrus]

ok, i might have find it, i reseted every color adjustment from the decoders and then changed the output in mpc to VMR9 (windowed) and that seemed to do the trick, i don't know the differences between the overlay mixer (default) and this one but i still do the video that i wanted to do in the first place just to be sure the "new" colors are actually correct