Tried searching everywhere for a my problem. Just bought the CC over the weekend. Brought it home, set it up and everything worked great. However, after watching a few movies via Googel cast on Chrome using the yellow video player, I noticed the screen would dim down in low light scenes and brighten back up in brighter scenes. Same scenario with Plex, Youtube, and Netflix. Anyone else have this issue?
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Tried searching everywhere for a my problem. Just bought the CC over the weekend. Brought it home, set it up and everything worked great. However, after watching a few movies via Googel cast on Chrome using the yellow video player, I noticed the screen would dim down in low light scenes and brighten back up in brighter scenes. Same scenario with Plex, Youtube, and Netflix. Anyone else have this issue?
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That's nothing to do with Chromecast. That's your TVs "feature" called Dynamic Contrast (or similar marketing name). It is probably enabled on HDMI input you are using Chromecast on.
Re: Chromecast fluctuating Brightness
I have a brand new Chromecast device and I am having brightness issues myself but think it is the fact that I have a cheap import TV. overall casting is always much darker than on my pc on all 3 HDMI ports and my TV has no Dynamic Contrast setting. It does have a dynamic color setting but all that does is add vibrance and sharpness and I leave that off as it makes movies look unnatural.
Even when I cast from my Phone or Tablet the image is darker and there are blues in the darker areas making the image beyond ugly if I turn up the brightness/contrast on my TV.
I hope I can get the cash together for a more expensive TV as I think it is the only way to get a decent image when casting. It would be good if the chromecast extension and the chromecast app had a brightness/contrast/gamma settings in their options to counteract this glitch on cheaper TV's (and cheaper than a new TV)
P.s. Sorry for necroing but this post shows that brightness issues are still happening to this day.
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Oki, now im sure that all these video black clipping is software rendering issues and i experienced yesterday, a perfect playback of all videos, without any black clipping. I experience same as many othersm at first day I got mine Note and with same issues all having at Video on Note thread. With all these black clipping issues on dark scenes and suddenly yesterday for first time ever, I could watch videos without any issues at all.
What happened:
I watch a eps of Chuck and as usual, the black clipping are all over the screen, make it unwatchable at dark scenes, for first time I watch it and with the Note video app.
I changed to MX Videoplayer and same video, suddenly all black clipping WAS GONE and a perfect playback without any more clipping. This is first time ever i watch all videos, without any black clipping and i was totally surprised. I tried play it again on Notes video player and NO black clipping at all.
Then I tried with youtube app, that can see clearly on most videos there and still NO BLACK CLIPPING!
This is totally weird for me, I just dont know what happened and why suddenly all these black clipping at dark scenes that I had with the phone suddenly are gone?
Today I watched the same video and the black clipps are back!
Anyone have experienced this weird behaviour before and why black clippings gone one day and comes back another day? Simpel is, what the heck is going on?
Its a strange issue. With my note it seems to depend on how the video is encoded. Some 720p files play fine, others I get the black block effect. But I am now pretty sure the screen is fine as some videos with lots of black / dark scenes play perfect. No one seems to be able yo lock down what is causing it, me included.
Encoding can definitely affect the banding. H.264 is usually fine, but DivX is nearly unwatchable at equal bitrate.
Hi, just tried this. I have tried sevral HD videos that I have on the SD card and some movies from Youtube and other webs. I can no longer see black level clipping. Rendering looks a little more blocky on some flat areas, like it was 16 and not 32 bits. But hell, black clipping was much more visible.
So if this is just a video driver or decoder issue, I hope Samsung puts the fix on the final ICS ROM. A clearly visible bug with an easy software fix cannot be left unsolved.
I am really going to sell my Gnote and go back to SGS2 because of this BLACK CLIPPING
Just proves its not a screen issue but something else.
Was obvious thought because black clipping was not truly everywhere
Lol
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I am really going to sell my Gnote and go back to SGS2 because of this BLACK CLIPPING
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Try higher quality movies and another movieplayer
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I have noticed that compare to the on computer content such as youtube. especially like androidauthority youtube video. I noticed that on YouTube their bottom right conner icon has more blank space. However when I cast from youtube to my TV. I noticed that the video is a bit cut off, not a big deal, but just a bit cut off. Anyone see this too? My TV is an Old Philips 32 inches from at least 4 years back, but surprise has HDMI-CEC
It's overscan, try to turn that setting off it has it.
Everything seems to be working Except for the video brightness dims up and down. Similarly the audio volume does the same thing. Any ideas?
Could be your TV. Many TVs have settings to dynamically adjust the picture for best contrast in light and dark scenes, and also to automatically adjust the audio volume compression. Most people prefer to turn those settings off, but they are often on by default. If you haven't used the HDMI input that the Chromecast is plugged into before, those TV settings may be on by default and affecting your picture and sound.
Is it normal for a television to make the text look weird? Like hard to read and stuff. Maybe there are not enough pixels per inch?
I'm using my laptop's (Dell Latitude e6320) mini HDMI port to hook up to my 42" LG TV http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-42LB5600-42-Inch-1080p/dp/B00KVLT0A4/ref=sr_1_1?s=tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1419899716&sr=1-1&keywords=Led+tv
The resolution is set to 1920x1080 and although things seem fairly sharp the text is still hard to read. I am fairly close to my TV as well (maybe 4-5 feet). Is a TV just not supposed to work for reading small text?
It's a 1080p TV so I'm expecting the text to be sharp and easy to read...
You're not supposed to be sitting 1.5m (5ft) from a 42" TV... They're not designed for that.
A 42" 1080p TV has an effective DPI of 48. A monitor has 72. High quality print is 300+.
If you want to read text on a TV that close, you'll need at least a 4K TV.
As @ShadowLea says. TV's are not designed for that stuff. Even with 4K it sometimes looks weird from close distance. I can tell that from my own experience with a Samsung curved 55 inch.
My phone used to cast perfectly well before I updated to 9.0.0.168.
Now it flickers, the video gets broken up and green bands keep popping up. The bottom half of the screen is more stable.
What could be the problem?
My phone's model is CLT-L29. Here is a picture of what happens when I do wireless projection.
Hey, the picture is missing!
I'm struggling with casting too. The screen mirroring via Google Home to my Chromecast used to be good.
But since the upgrade from Emui8 to Emui9 the resolution is terrible, it's blurred.
Before displaying it reports the hardware is not optimal. But heck, this is a P20 Pro so I would expect more.
Huawei support the wired or wireless display, but my Samsung LED TV is already too old to support, so I'm stuck to Chromecast, but that doesnot good.