MKV and VLC Color Washout?

[FFactory0x]

I ripped my Star Trek Bluray Movie and watched on laptop in the .mkv container from VLC. I thought something looked a little off like it was lighter and the colors looked not as vivid as i thought they would look.

I then pulled up the BluRay Disk in Powerdvd and playing directly from disk confirmed my thoughts as it was darker and more vivid.

Any idea's? Could it be a problem with VLC player?

I am basically going to move .mkv from my computer to a WDTV Live Plus box on my network

 

[Aharami]

it think it's VLC player. Always looks more washed out compared to WMC. Try playing that same mkv with wmp

 

[blackangst1]

VLC blows. Either set up WMP12/WMC correctly, or use WMP Classic.

 

[JAG87]

It sounds like it's a YUV/RGB problem:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=132716

Either way, I'd suggest switching to MPC-HC

 

[ra990]

In the advanced video options, uncheck "Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions"

 

[DirkGently1]

VLC has horrible picture quality compared to the competition. It's a mystery to me why people still use it. Try MPC-HC.