Bug 138340

Summary:	Kaffeine 0.8.3 has greatly increased contrast with XV on i810 video cards
Product:	[Applications] kaffeine	Reporter:	Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Christophe Thommeret <hftom>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Raymond Lewis Rebbeck 2006-12-04 12:51:13 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

The contrast is abnormally high making the video washed out. I am using an i915GM card and X.org 7.1 and xine 1.1.3

This problem does not occur with kaffeine 0.8.2, only with 0.8.3. A workaround is to adjust the contrast manually to around 50% or to use another video output driver like xshm.

This does not occur on my other system which has an nvidia card, everything is fine there.

I can supply pictures of the behaviour if necessary.

Comment 1 Christophe Thommeret 2006-12-04 16:57:00 UTC

0.8.3 saves video settings and restore them.
So, at first start it uses a default setting that seems to be the nvidia one.
But after you have adjusted the contrast for your card it should be correctly restored next time, isn't it?

Comment 2 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck 2006-12-05 01:52:14 UTC

Yes, after manually adjusting the contrast I can sort of get it looking normal and it is restored the next time kaffeine is run. However kaffeine should not have set such a horribly incorrect contrast in the first place and should have sane defaults, like all previous releases.

Comment 3 Christophe Thommeret 2006-12-05 03:09:42 UTC

Previous release had no defaults, it simply didn't save and restore.
I've fixed that by not restoring anything if nothing was saved ;)

Comment 4 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck 2006-12-05 06:00:45 UTC

Issue is not resolved, while the patch does make the video settings normal on a fresh start of kaffeine. The settings are not saved properly after that and contrast, hue and saturation are set to 0 on the next start, making the video black until manually corrected.

Comment 5 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck 2006-12-05 06:02:09 UTC

Oh I forgot to mention, this happens on both my nvidia and i810 systems.

Comment 6 Christophe Thommeret 2006-12-05 08:35:25 UTC

oops..
Should be fixed now.

Comment 7 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck 2006-12-05 09:43:22 UTC

It's fixed now, works great. Thanks a lot.