Gamma shift when exporting MP4

I know this is a known issue, but I have yet to see a viable solution.
Working off PC and exporting via Adobe encoder.
When exporting H.264 in an mp4 container, there are significant gamma shift issues that void several hours/days of color correction work. It really washes out the color.  I have viewed these exported mp4's in quicktime and VLC on multiple computers and the issue is still present.
Quicktime MOV exports seem to be fine, it is only when exporting H.264 mp4.
Some have mentioned changing the NVIDIA settings which seems to be an internal fix for that monitor, but I am exporting video's that will be going on the web for distribution.  I really need consistency across all media platforms.
This is a very big deal that needs attention and hopefully a fix is in the works if it is not already out there.
Thanks,
Austin

Gamma shift once clip starts
Pure black before clip starts
Thanks for the reply!
The above demonstration is the same in VLC as well.
We exported black for a few seconds and then faded into a jpg image using the generic fade in effect.
All that was used in this clip was a jpg image at the end that we faded into. For this test we used no video.
Running Premiere Pro 8.1 Caravan on a Dell Precision T5610 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @2.10 GHz 32gb RAM
Working off a Synology diskstation ds1513 20TB 4GB RAM
Only third party installed effects are film impact transitions, but they were not used in this clip.
Let me know if any more info is needed.
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