[mythtv-users] Change brightness during playback

[R. G. Newbury]

On 02/02/2010 08:33 AM, David Fishburn wrote:
> MythTV 0.22
>
> General problem:
> Quite often some recording are much too dark to view well.
>
>
> I have googled a bit and found a few references to the keybindings to
> change brightness during playback.  But these posts are from 2005 and
> when I try them in 0.22 they only bring up the volume control.
>
> So this is what I found:
>
> **
> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2009-June/257655.html
> You need to enable picture adjustments (it's somewhere in Playback
> settings) - though they aren't available in all renderers (XVideo
> should be fine). If the keybindings aren't working then bring up the
> OSD menu - there should be an entry for adjust picture (or similar).
> **
>
> I have looked all through the settings pages and can't find any
> reference to the above.
>

Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback (bottom of page 1) Enable Picture Controls

  > **
> http://threebit.net/mail-archive/mythtv-users/msg07677.html
> To change the color (saturation), brightness, hue and contrast in the
> recording press 'G' (each press will select between color, hue,
> brightness and contrast) with 'Left' and 'Right' changing the value.
> If you want to change the display color and not the recording then use
> the 'F' command (you will need to enable it in the settings).  Before
> using 'G' make sure it really is the PVR-150 that has the color
> problem and not your TV-out.
> **
>
>
> Neither of those keys work for me.
>
> Looking at my own keybindings I see:
>
> TV Playback 	TOGGLERECCONTROLS 	Recording picture adjustments for this
> recorder    G
> TV Playback 	TOGGLEPICCONTROLS 	Playback picture adjustments            F
>
>
> So they look like they should do what I want (assuming it is F as the
> primary control).
>
> G does nothing when I press it (while watching the recording).
> F simply brings up the Volume control.
>
> I changed the binding to F,T and remove T from closed caption toggle.
> It still only does the Volume.
>

You will probably have to revert the changes you made to the key bindings.

Geoff



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