H.264 playback too dark

Videos played under qt player are too dark. I have to manually set A/V controls for every new file opened.
Is there a way to permanently adjust image levels?
(Also, I've tried perian but stopped -- qt crashed sometimes with it installed. I'd rather not use other playback apps (vlc, etc) since my work has some useful tools with qt player pro.)

Hi there.
Are your H.264 files in Mp4/m4vs containers
Ive heard the codec quicktime uses does play them a little too dark. Not sure if this was solved in a recent update.
I dont think there is much you can do, but perian is pretty good, im surprised it is crashing. As to settings from what i can see it is file specific.
Sorry couldn't really help. At least your not the only one seeing the darker playback

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