Downloaded videos are very dark on monitor.

[bluesteel]

Hi, I apologize in advance if this is not a hardware issue, just can't seem to figure out.
When I play any downloaded movie, whether it's the H.D. or a burned disk, the picture is very dark.
I've tried the same movies in other computers, and they're fine.  I have not changed my video card, or any other hardware recently. If I play a store bought dvd, it works fine also.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Broni]

What player?

[bluesteel]

What player?

It doesn't seem to matter which player, I usually use Win. Media Player 9, but downloaded a few new players to eliminate that possibility. WMP has always worked in the past on this computer as well.

[iamyourmom]

perhaps its the video quality itself???

[Broni]

I've tried the same movies in other computers, and they're fine.

What other player did you try, beside WMP?

[bluesteel]

perhaps its the video quality itself???

It's not the video quality, they used to work on this computer, and I have viewed the media on other computers.

[bluesteel]

It's not the video quality, they used to work on this computer, and I have viewed the media on other computers.

I have tried Real Player, something called GOM Player, and other ones that I downloaded just for trial and error purposes, and have since deleted. It is definitely not player dependent. I used WMP on this same computer to watch the same videos. It's very frustrating.

[Broni]

Check VLC Player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
It may be some codec issue.

[bluesteel]

Check VLC Player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
It may be some codec issue.

Thanks for the suggestion, however as I suspected, it most definitely is not a video player issue at all. I did install the VLC player as you suggested, and it still didn't work. So, I have tried at least 5 video players, all with the same result. Remember that these same videos played on the same computer using the WMP that I've always used, so it's not a codec issue either. I am completely out of ideas.

[JJ 3000]

Have you tried a different monitor?

[bluesteel]

Have you tried a different monitor?

Hi, was pretty sure monitor wasn't the issue because it has always played these same videos.  But, I went ahead and checked it anyway. It didn't work there either, I knew it was definitely a computer issue, not player, etc. Even so, I always will check everyone's solution just in case I might have missed something or, as in this case, gets me thinking along a new line.
I resolved the problem. Just for the *censored* of it, I went to Nvidias website and downloaded the applicable drivers again. Once I rebooted with the new drivers, I was golden. The strange thing is that nothing was ever changed with the videos, or the video card.
One more cool thing, for many months I had a "burned" spot on a portion of my LCD. I thought my monitor was going, or a static image had been left on for too long. I was really bummed because it was a 26" Dell wide screen. The newly installed drivers took care of that issue as well. I guess it was a driver associated anomaly.
Thanks

[Broni]

Beautiful