Plex, why do you do this ?

General Discussions
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Hello,

Does plex takes liberties about colors/contrast/brightness & co ?

Here is VLC and plex side by side. Same file, same server, same screen.
Day and night :wink:

Thanks everyone.

Mat

2

The only difference I see in comparing the two is the one on the left looks to have the brightness level set too high as shadows look to be almost gone in that version

3

It may be vlc’s fault :slight_smile:

I don’t find one better than the other

i was just wondering wich one is the “true”.

Maybe every player use it’s own color settings


4

It could be an issue with ‘limited’ vs. ‘full’ RGB levels. On computer screens, it is usually full range, while at tv inputs the limited range is usually used for video content.

It could equally be a difference, which video API the VLC player uses vs what your web browser uses. Some video adapter driver software has controls available to adjust one of these. So, check out the advanced options of VLC and the driver preferences of your graphics adapter.

5

I’m assuming that Plex isn’t transcoding this playback, right? Cause that would certainly explain it. :slight_smile:

6

I don’t think this is the case here. Transcoding doesn’t change the video levels so drastically.

7

I think that “drastically” might be overstating it a tad, if the pictures weren’t right next to each other most people probably wouldn’t even notice.

In any case if he doesn’t like how it looks in VLC he can always tweak it back. Under Tools->Effects and filters there’s a dozen different ways to tweak the image.

If it’s the web player image he wants to change then tweaking the graphics card video settings might be the best bet.

John

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@jfconde said:
I think that “drastically” might be overstating it a tad, if the pictures weren’t right next to each other most people probably wouldn’t even notice.

I am a bit sensitive in that area because I did “prepress” jobs over years. :wink: