Weird colors on video playback (imac 9,1, karmic 9.10)

[jamesey]

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 without any issues. Everything including video worked fine. then i did a upgrade that included a linux kernel update, and all my video looks like the picture below. it's like the negative is being shown. this happens on all video players, across multiple video formats. Anyone know what's going on?

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h138/jameseyjamesey/Screenshot-CurbYourEnthusiasmS07E07.png

[rjcalifornia]

it happened to me.... I did a clean reinstall... :(

[ceasol]

If you have Nvidia Driver downgrade from 185 to 173 that works for me

[ad5]

Before you downgrade your graphics driver check whether your color balance in Totem is correct!
Go to: Edit > Preferences then to the display-flag and choose the "Reset to Defaults"-button.
That worked for me since the color balance was somehow displaced after upgrading to karmic.

[madverb]

Haha, can't believe you would do a reinstall for that. I had the same problem at the last post.
Changed the Hue back to default and all was good.

[ceasol]

Before you downgrade your graphics driver check whether your color balance in Totem is correct!
Go to: Edit > Preferences then to the display-flag and choose the "Reset to Defaults"-button.
That worked for me since the color balance was somehow displaced after upgrading to karmic.

The problem is not just Totem, any video player is affected for this issue (VLC, Mplayer and so) in all the other applications the colors are OK (pictures, desktop, etc).

The problem was reported @ Nvidia forum (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=133613) with Ubuntu 9.04 and Nvidia 185. There're some pictures.

[jamesey]

anyone know if the 190 drivers will fix this?

edit: they dont

[madverb]

Yes, it happens in everything video, even MythTV.
But changing the setting in Totem changes it system-wide.

[rjcalifornia]

is that curb your enthusiasm?

[jeraldm]

Open totem movie player and navigate to edit -> preferences -> Display and click on Reset to defaults. No need to restart. This fixed the issue.
The problem is due to the wrong hue setting.

[catalin.soare]

I do agree with you about the solution but why does the problem apear again and again?

For me, I think it's a bug... :sad:

[firesock]

thank you very much! worked for me... karmic it's amazing...

[gavinhughes86]

Before you downgrade your graphics driver check whether your color balance in Totem is correct!
Go to: Edit > Preferences then to the display-flag and choose the "Reset to Defaults"-button.
That worked for me since the color balance was somehow displaced after upgrading to karmic.


Cheers worked for me too!
Im using nvidia 185 drivers on a dell m1330 and 64 bit ubuntu

[Duanebuntu]

Awesome. This solved it for me.

[bcn17]

The fixed I used after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10.

In terminal:
gstreamer-properties

Select Video tab, then under Output, choose the Plugin drop down menu, and change the value to X window system (No XV)

I'm not exactly sure what this is, or if it is different than the default settings fix in the end but it worked!

[shuck]

Open movie player. Edit>preferences>Display>Reset to Defaults... it works for me too..

[kedmond]

Open totem movie player and navigate to edit -> preferences -> Display and click on Reset to defaults. No need to restart. This fixed the issue.
The problem is due to the wrong hue setting.

THANKS! You rock.

[bangbong]

thanks! , work for me too...

[hellblazer]

Yeah! Works after kernel update for Lucid too. Thanks!

[domonics]

The fixed I used after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10.

In terminal:
gstreamer-properties

Select Video tab, then under Output, choose the Plugin drop down menu, and change the value to X window system (No XV)

I'm not exactly sure what this is, or if it is different than the default settings fix in the end but it worked!

This worked for me. 10.04 64bit:o:o:P:P

[braincookie]

For me, resetting default values did not work, instead I had to put the Hue to minimum value:

In a console window type

totem

then go to the Edit preferences->View tab and put the hue (the very last slider) all to the left.

Confirm and even VLC works fine afterwards.

[Drone4four]

The fixed I used after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10.

In terminal:
gstreamer-properties

Select Video tab, then under Output, choose the Plugin drop down menu, and change the value to X window system (No XV)

I'm not exactly sure what this is, or if it is different than the default settings fix in the end but it worked!

Thank you, bcn17. This worked for me on 10.10, although I gstreamer-properties was already installed.