Users that connect the graphics card to their HDTV have the correct colour range by default, 16-235, so all content will display as it should. Knowing this, we can see that it’s a sort of fail-safe measure for HDTV users on Nvidia’s part. You don’t lose detail by using RGB limited on a HDTV, but you would if you used RGB full. A game gets converted from 0-255 to 16-235 otherwise you would lose 16 shades of black (they would all look the same shade of black) and 20 shades of white (they would all look the same shade of white), so we avoid black crush and white crush. Playing most media on a HDTV with this limited colour range is fine – you aren’t losing any detail as the media is already in the 16-235 colour range. TVs use the limited 16-235 colour range where anything below 16 is pure black and above 235 is pure white.
If an Nvidia graphics card is connected to a display with a resolution a TV would have, 1920×1080 for example, then it deems the display a HDTV and not a monitor. Just a quick explanation as to why this is the default. Check out the following video that highlights the difference the setting can make: You should see a noticeable difference right away when you play videos in VLC Media Player.
Just click on the other monitors to activate them on the Video Color Settings of the Nvidia Control Panel and enable the Full setting for the dynamic range for them. Note that you may want to make the change for all connected monitors. Select Full (0-255) instead of Limited (16-235) in the Dynamic Range menu.Switch to "With the NVIDIA Settings" if the option is not enabled.Go to Video > Adjust Video Color Settings.If the entry does not appear, tap on the Windows-key, type Nvidia Control Panel, and select the option from the list of search results instead. Right-click on the desktop of the computer system and select Nvidia Control Panel from it.SHA-1: 84b4d372a49e2293685cd72cc0c47f213411ab1c Filename: vlc-3.0.2.Try the following fix once you have come to the conclusion that black levels may look washed out in VLC Media Player: License: Free Date added: Thursday, June 6th 2019 Author: VideoLAN
Technical Title: VLC media player 3.0.2 for Mac Requirements: It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org. VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player.ĭon’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format.