How to fix washed out video color in playback software (VLC, Windows Media Player, etc)

A simple setting that makes your videos look like they should.

[CallMeMeialeka]

Guys, if you dont have the video tab like me, its because you have also a intel graphic, so... right click on desktop > graphic intel definitions > video > activate total color correction and set ecerything to the max and click apply

[GreenBand]

cool, I thought obs was making colors dull, thanks for teaching us that it's only in the playback

[Accrd]

Thank you so much. this video is super old but honestly I just built the new PC with Windows 10 and bam as soon as I changed them it went right back to those rich blacks again. THANK YOU!!!

[YSHHL]

YOU'RE A Legit been searching for a fix for about 3 weeks straight now, preciate the help

[nicolocavallaro]

Thank you so much man because I was going crazy. I don't know why this damned setting changed itself to the value 16-235 and if I hadn't found your video I would still be here cursing. I use DaVinci Resolve by default and I thought it was a settings problem, but over the years I have learned to set all the color space settings correctly so I didn't understand. I also installed Adobe Premiere Pro and even with this software, once the videos were exported and played on any player I saw them washed out. In short, thank you very much!

[InterfectorBCEyearsago]

i cant find the radeon additional settings on my amd where to find it??

[yolani]

this fixed EVERYTHING. I I just got a new monitor and everything looked like it had a white haze, after I changed it, everything looksed soooo much better :P

[bobbuilder]

after the windows 10 update it was washed out i tried EVERYTHING almost. your solution did Not fix it : ( .

[russhorn]

Thanks man, this has been driving me crazy for a long time!

[coffeegrinder]

This helped me. The only player that looked weird was VLC, but now VLC shows a nice picture!! Thanks!

[OnlyAtWaterlooRoad]

It is very dependent on your media plater I have found. VLC no matter what I do looks yellow and everyone looks sick and odd, MPC naturally without doing anything has the correct colours and it looks completely different from VLC, SM player is in between for me, it doesn't look as good as MPC but not as washed out as VLC and potplayer is around six shades darker than the rest and everything is orange no matter what settings I use. I would just say find the one which looks best and most natural to you, I have tried nearly all the players recommended by people and every single one looks suprisely different.

[TheHerdkinar]

Appreciate effort of making video of us mere mortals. Thank you good sir.

[fil_c]

So I have this weird problem, every time I look up at a video it gets a gray feeling to it, kinda weird. when I go down to the comments and back up it's bright for a couple of seconds and turns back with the gray accent.

[zom]

at the beginning when you press adjust video color settings on the nvidia control panel just click the option that says "With the video player settings" and it's fixed

[criminalss]

Bro thank you I was having so much trouble, yours you can barely see the difference but mines was very bright I could barely see my videos!! Thank you very much I'm subscribing

[soratenshi]

If it didnt work for you, change from "with nvidia settings" to "with the video player settings"

[jndominica]

Really odd that Nvidia comes with this setting as the default for normal PC monitors. Video levels should only be used with odd TVs. This only applies for direct h/w accelerated YCbCr output. If the player converts to RGB (YV12 unchecked in ffdshow or lavfilters), then it uses its own formula.

[imperial-x]

I don't know how that is a amd setting.... I cant find it... I got right click amd settings but its nothing like yours showing

[Deliverk]

This happens to me but only when I trim my clips will this still fix it?

[slowle_]

I recently noticed my screen is faded but it’s not just the videos it’s like my hole screen everything is faded and I’m 100% it wasn’t like that before how can I fix that