On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:09 -0500, D Wyatt wrote:
The majority of videos play a little too dark, so I usually bump up the brightness about 10 points.
If the majority are bad, perhaps the real issue's outside of mplayer (monitor set up, or all video output).
Usually, video's look too bright (or at least the darker portions of the video signal), as they're prepared for television sets, which have a different gamma than computer monitors.