On Thursday 21 June 2007 16:44, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > Hi Tim. Sorry for the delay in replying. I hadn't tried the monitor > > controls, (silly me) and that sorts the DVD's out ok, but then I have to > > reset the brightness/contrast, otherwise the desktop is way over the top. > > > > I was thinking that there might be some controls similar to those on > > Xawtv, where you can set brightness/contrast, etc, without messing with > > the monitor. > > > > Nigel. > > You may want to play with the brightens and contrast controls in the > Settings --> Preferences --> Video --> Filters --> Image Adjust menu. > > Mikkel Thanks for the long and winding road to these settings, but making changes to them are having no effect whatsoever. ~/.vlc/vlcrc shows the changes I have made, but they arn't having any effect unfortunately. [adjust] # Image properties filter # Image contrast (0-2) (float) contrast=1.900000 # Image brightness (0-2) (float) brightness=2.000000 # Image hue (0-360) (integer) hue=155 # Image saturation (0-3) (float) saturation=1.400000 # Image gamma (0-10) (float) gamma=6.000000 # Brightness threshold (boolean) brightness-threshold=1 Nigel.