Public bug reported:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
totem 2.21.93-0ubuntu2
vlc 0.8.6.release.d-0ubuntu3
mplayer 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu8
I have a great computer. Intel Core 2 Duo, 4gb RAM, GeForce 8600, etc.
When I play movie files on my computer, the default settings are bad.
I played movies, and I was like "wow, this video quality looks horrible, and it
is so dark", I know in Windows XP, it looks much smoother, better and brighter
(in WMP, VLC, MPC).
I used VLC, Totem and MPlayer, and the video quality is crappy and its dark.
I thought "oh Linux sucks for multimedia", but after some time fiddling around,
I discovered that it is just the default settings sucks.
I managed to enable "Post-processing" in VLC which seemed to increase the
quality a bit.
It was disabled by default. :(
Still dark though. :(
In MPlayer, post-processing was also disabled by default, but I discovered how
to enable it.
Still dark though. :(
Then I switched in the "Video" tab at "Available drivers" from "xv (X11/Xv)" to
"gl (X11 (OpenGL))" which made it all brighter, and the quality became good.
Now after changing some settings, the playback quality in Linux is much
better and more comparable to that on Windows XP.
Maybe this crappy settings are just because I am using Hardy Heron
(alpha4+updates). Maybe stable version have it better.
With MPlayer I can also skip and rewind in the movies without any delay. If I
try to do this in VLC, there will be a annoying second delay.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Default video playback settings are bad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193791
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