After recording tomy DVD camcorder and finalizating the disc with the camera, I pop it into my computer and it the video shows up very very dark. You can barely make out the figures. Playing it with dell media direct helped the situation a little, but both vlc and WMP fail to show any where close to the correct contrast and brightness of the actual video. I put the same DVD into my sisters computer and WMP reads it just fine. I rip the disc onto a hard drive and put it bcak on my computer with the same problem. I don’t know what to do or what is wrong. Additionally, if anyone knows good software to get .vob files into editable files (AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc) please let me know. Thanks.
PS: It is a Panasonic DVD-RAM camcorder
WMP and VLC might be using DirectX settings to display its video. I know with VLC you can change how it displays video and in WMP there are slider bars for brightness and contrast on videos.
Conversion tutorials here
Conversions can be really tricky.
Sounds like it might not be the DVD but rather your computer that isn’t working properly. Can you play other DVDs properly?
Mess with your brightness/contrast or gamma in whatever video editing app you’re using. In extreme cases, convolution kernel can help too. Was your exposure way low while you were shooting?
I figured it out, I right clicked and went to nVidia control panel and adjusted video settings, I had to turn gamma all the way up to even get a picture, all the colors are way off and I really don’t have the time (or patience) to calibrate the RGB manually, I have no clue how this happened. The DVD reading problem was solved by installing KLite codecs. Now for the conversion…
