MadVR washed out .AVI with AVC video, looks perfect with EVR

[spapakons]

I recently updated K-Lite Codec Pack and I noticed a weird behavior of MadVR. AVI videos with AVC compression (x264 or x264vfw) appear dull, washed out like having set saturation to half or less. I think it might has to do with my monitor profile, because they look normal if I switch from MadVR to Enhanced Video Renderer or I play them in VLC. I didn't change anything, my monitor is set to PC Levels (0-255), 8-bit native bitdepth and none in 3D format. In HDR section I chose Let MadVR decide. When playing .MP4 or .MKV with AVC compression or any other video file, including .AVI files with other compression they all look fine. If I switch from MadVR to EVR all videos, including .AVI with AVC compression look fine. I don't know how to fix this. Please help me, I prefer MadVR to EVR.

Thank you in advance.

PS: Please resist the urge to tell me it is not a good idea to put AVC video in .AVI container and use .MP4 or .MKV I already know that, but I frequently use VirtualDub to edit videos and .AVI is the only format it can save to. Besides, I don't like bugs, all videos played perfectly before updating to latest K-Lite codec pack. What changed now?


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[davexnet]

Why don't you try vdub2? It's a fork that started about 5 years ago and is still active.
It can save to those other formats :
https://www.videohelp.com/software/VirtualDub2

[spapakons]

My bad, I didn't say I am using VirtualDub2, not the original VirtualDub version. I know it can export to other formats, but I prefer to use the .AVI format as long as I can compress the video to AVC (x264vfw) or HEVC (x265vfw) or AV1 (xav1vfw) and many other formats. AVI 720p or 1080p videos compressed to AVC with MPEG or AC3 (Dolby Digital) sound are accepted in MultiAVCHD to produce an AVCHD disk without processing, so it doesn't degrade the quality. I don't have to convert them to .MP4 or .MKV first. So I open the HD video in VirtualDub2, edit it, compress to AVC and I am good to go. The reason I prefer VirtualDub2 is because it is easy to use, it is frame accurate and it has many filters I cannot find in other applications.