How to increase brightness in avi videos?

[Perilscope]

Originally Posted by Skybird

It is done via editing the original data?

If the brightness is blocked, of course you need to re-encode the video with higher brightness if you want it higher.

Originally Posted by Skybird

I avoided AVI captures in the past, and if it is like this, then I can live very well with avoiding them in the future as well.

So be it... what can I say, they put the word "capture" because it can do that to, but it's mainly a powerful linear video editing tool. By the way, VirtualDub does not install, you just click on the EXE, so no harm done if you do not like it or too intimidating for you, you just toss the folder in the trash and that's it.

[Skybird]

Yes, I just meant I find it so stupid to intentionally record movies that damn dark that one cannot see anything. Player software has brightness controls, like a TV. Why intentionally locking these controls? Stupid. It's always the case with AVIs. It's never the case with WMFs.

[Skybird]

tried it anyway, with four different AVIs. And it did not load any of them - each of them, it complained, being another kind of additional format that it would not operate for not being compatible.

Well, worth an attempt, no AVIs for me, then.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by Skybird

tried it anyway, with four different AVIs. And it did not load any of them - each of them, it complained, being another kind of additional format that it would not operate for not being compatible.

Then you need to install a codec pack like K-Lite:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm

[CB..]

i have this problem with games aswell....fairly inexplicable...some games just are unplayable simply because they are far too dark...quite literaly a pitch black screen with some vague shapes moving about..no amount of gamma correction or brightness adjustment touches it..i have a program called powerstrip which sometime does the trick allowing me to adjust the gamma from there but still there are many games that this program is incompatible with..

foxes me

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Gizzmoe

Then you need to install a codec pack like K-Lite:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm

Thanks, that worked, though not easily accessible. Any way how I could save the lightened video without reserving several GB for what before was just 50 MB, and spending half an hour for the saving? The help file is for inside only, I did not understand even half of what I red.