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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by therealmarv on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:55PM (#25993790)
When will VideoLAN focus on color accuracy (colors are slightly off by default)? I suspect most users don't notice but e.g. Quicktime on supported formats adjusts colors according to monitor color profile and video color profile and it's visible for trained eyes. I can adjust manually my VLC too in colors but it's not exact science and just by comparing and personal feeling. I wished I could optimise videos as good as my TV is doing it in VLC (but this is also beyond colors).

Thanks VLC!

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by jbk on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:06PM (#25993957)
> When will VideoLAN focus on color accuracy

Next major release of VLC.

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by kuschku on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:30AM (#25999308)
I get constant crashes with HDR10 video, is improving the support for HDR10 video also on the roadmap?
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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by cvuls on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:56PM (#25995818)
your problem is likely this

https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:Video:Color_washed_out/

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by therealmarv on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:53PM (#25996955)
No it's not only this. I have to change Hue, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Gamma slightly. Quicktime on Mac does a better job in this. VLC is not color accurate by default or not optimized for subjective pleasing color results (unlike most TVs nowadays) but the manual sliders can compensate it. However it's annoying if you change monitors. Then the settings are off again.
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