WPF MediaElement - Why are my blacks not black?

Question

When playing an MPEG2 video using a WPF MediaElement, the parts of the video that should be black are gray. There is no alpha in the video, and the video has accurate color when played via Windows Media Player or Quicktime Player.

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong, or what codec is recommended to get accurate blacks? I'm more interested in quality than download size.

I've found a workaround which is to export the video with an alpha channel (dramatically increases the size/data rate). I could also just use a JPG sequence, but that seems pretty lame...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Answer 1

I just discovered my question is answered in a different thread on the same forum (doh):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313907/wpf-video-colors-in-mediaelement-different-from-windows-media-player