Solved Question about the Windows Dreamscene color quality.

I've noticed the color quality of my dreamscene background is quite poor when being used as my wallpaper, however it looks fine in Windows Media Player. Is there anything I can do about this?


Example:

This is what it looks like in Windows Media Player.


This is what it looks like on my desktop.



Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

What is likely going on is that the video is being stretched to fit your screen. What you can try to do is to center the video. From the desktop background menu try selecting the icon shown below.



Where did you get that video? Is it online so I can try it?

Sadly, that wasn't the case. When I set a video as my desktop background, it appears a lot brighter and less vibrant than it does in Windows Meida Player, no matter how I have it positioned.

As for the video, I uploaded it here.

I don't see too much of a difference and since your screenshots are so small I can't tell the difference in what you are seeing. What I do know is that MP is not showing the video full size by default because of how large it is. Perhaps if you expanded it to full screen the video would look more like it should. This is a high def format and you only get good results in using high def if the media is designed for it otherwise it will look distorted; does that make sense? Did you make that yourself from pictures? Now I don't have much experience with dreamscene because once I noticed how intensive it was on my cpu I stopped using it. Now that I have a computer with a much better cpu I only run Vista as a virtual machine when I need it so I still don't use dreamscene. So for all I know dreamscene may not do as good a job with video as MP. Perhaps someone else here knows more about it but I don't have any other ideas.

I apologize for the insanely late reply, however I have pretty much solved my problem by setting dynamic range to full under the video color settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

It makes the colors in dreamscene much more vibrant as they should be, rather than dull like before.
Full dynamic range enables all video applications to use the same color settings.

Thanks for sharing.