Dark videos
Anyone have any idea why any videos I play, not matter the player, are darker than they should be. Screen is fine. Everything else is the brightness it should be. Other apps. Multiple browsers. Youtube videos are fine, Netflix is fine. Crucnhyroll is fine. Happens with VLC, mpv, Haruna, Clapper, Light Video, etc.
mpv is actually a little brighter than vlc, but still much too dark.
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An example. Bright sunny day all washed out. Happening with everything I try to watch
Try playing the videos on a browser
So it's wayland forcing limited-range RGB mode 16–235
And no way to change it unlike x11
srgb(1,1,1).
I was able to get srgb(4,0,1) by making this ~/.config/monitor.xml and adding
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<monitors version="1">
<monitor>
<vendor>Generic</vendor>
<product>Monitor2</product>
<serial>Q3279WG5B</serial>
<rgbrange>full</rgbrange>
<width>2560</width>
<height>1440</height>
<refresh>75</refresh>
<primary>0</primary>
<pos_x>0</pos_x>
<pos_y>0</pos_y>
</monitor>
<monitor>
<vendor>Generic</vendor>
<product>Monitor1</product>
<serial>UG32A2R</serial>
<rgbrange>full</rgbrange>
<width>2560</width>
<height>1440</height>
<refresh>165</refresh>
<primary>1</primary>
<pos_x>2560</pos_x>
<pos_y>0</pos_y>
</monitor>
</monitors>
Still not full thoughthere should be an option in settings for RGB Range if you are using KDE
Not there for me
colour accuracy and brightness checkbox dont change it
is it an amd gpu?
nvidia
hmmm, can you get an icc profile for your monitor from rtings, and applying in settings?
and if you can, paste the outputs of
kscreen-doctor -o hereOutput: 1 DP-1 4c7f5dc7-a69d-47ab-bc36-090eee19e3e5
enabled
connected
priority 2
DisplayPort
replication source:0
Modes: 1:2560x1440@60! 2:2560x1440@75* 3:1920x1080@60 4:1920x1080@60 5:1920x1080@50 6:1280x1440@60 7:1680x1050@60 8:1280x1024@75 9:1280x1024@60 10:1440x900@60 11:1280x960@60 12:1280x720@60 13:1280x720@60 14:1280x720@50 15:1024x768@75 16:1024x768@70 17:1024x768@60 18:800x600@75 19:800x600@72 20:800x600@60 21:800x600@56 22:720x576@50 23:720x480@60 24:640x480@75 25:640x480@73 26:640x480@60 27:640x480@60
Geometry: 0,0 2227x1253
Scale: 1.15
Rotation: 1
Overscan: 0
Vrr: Automatic
RgbRange: unknown
HDR: incapable
Wide Color Gamut: incapable
ICC profile: none
Color profile source: sRGB
Color power preference: prefer efficiency and performance
Brightness control: supported, set to 100% and dimming to 100%
DDC/CI: allowed
Color resolution: unknown
Allow EDR: unsupported
Output: 2 DP-2 eebd2678-7abb-4922-ac27-7fc3264c8fc1
enabled
connected
priority 1
DisplayPort
replication source:0
Modes: 28:2560x1440@60! 29:3840x2160@60 30:3840x2160@50 31:2560x1440@165* 32:2560x1440@144 33:2560x1440@120 34:1920x1200@60 35:1920x1080@144 36:1920x1080@120 37:1920x1080@60 38:1920x1080@60 39:1920x1080@50 40:1600x1200@60 41:1680x1050@60 42:1600x900@60 43:1280x1024@75 44:1280x1024@60 45:1280x960@60 46:1280x800@60 47:1152x864@75 48:1280x720@60 49:1280x720@60 50:1280x720@50 51:1024x768@75 52:1024x768@70 53:1024x768@60 54:800x600@75 55:800x600@72 56:800x600@60 57:800x600@56 58:720x576@50 59:720x480@60 60:640x480@75 61:640x480@60 62:640x480@60
Geometry: 2227,0 2227x1253
Scale: 1.15
Rotation: 1
Overscan: 0
Vrr: Automatic
RgbRange: unknown
HDR: disabled
Wide Color Gamut: disabled
ICC profile: none
Color profile source: sRGB
Color power preference: prefer accuracy
Brightness control: supported, set to 100% and dimming to 100%
DDC/CI: allowed
Color resolution: unknown
Allow EDR: unsupportedtry
kscreen-doctor output.DP-2.rgbrange.full
or DP-1 if the problematic monitor is DP-1No luck sadly
for both?
try to put your monitor.xml fix elsewhere, perhaps it may be overriding kscreen-doctor?
Yeah, tried that too. Didn't work 🙁
Seems this has been a nvidia wayland issue for many many years and nvidia are not fixing it.
you could try to put an edited edid file into an rpm and then layer it
Gave up. This issue is the last straw for me. Back to windows. Will give linux another go in 3-5 years. Should hopefully be issue free by then.