9.10 negative colour while playing a video

[LinLou]

Hello,

Ive recently upgraded to ubuntu 9.10 but when i tried to watch a movie on movie player or on Mplayer the colour was like the negatives of a photo film. Anyone has any idea how can i fix that? My graphics card is Nvidia 9600GT.

thnx

[cowboy7305]

Thank god iam not the only one that is having trouble with my dvd play back with colour,i am also using a NVIDIA Driver Version 185 the recomended one for my computer <Dell Inspiron 530 ,never had any trouble with colour before 9.1 update

[threetwoone]

I am having a similar problem but I'm not sure. Do the video's all look blueish?

I have an nvidia 9500m GS (using the 185 driver) and that is whats happening to me. If you open up the "nvidia xserver settings" utility while the movie is playing it fixes it for me, you can close it after. It isn't a fix but its an easy work around. I was using the 185 with 9.04 and this wasn't a problem. Maybe the one from the nvidia site won't have this problem?

It would seem that the setting for Hue (in the "X server XVideo Settings" tab) gets messed up when you play a video (mine was at -1000). If you put it back to zero (or hit it reset hardware defaults button) then you can just open it to fix the movies like i mentioned before.

Unfortunately I don't even know how to start looking for a fix but I hope this helps.

[cowboy7305]

As above i also did that set hue to o or pressed reset then closed it and then restated my computer and that has worked for me so far

[rannuG]

I had the same problem. I solved it by going to Preferences in Movie Player. In Display, I moved the Hue to the middle instead of far left.

Good luck with your issues and I hope this might help!

[LinLou]

yeap! SOLVED!! ive opened the Nvidia Xserver Settings and set up the hue to 3 and the colors are perfect!!

Thank u all!!

[Ken-san]

I can confirm that the "fix" works for me as well. Somehow, the hue messes up when opening a video and everything looks blue-ish (although watching blue fire -watched new Mythbusters episode last night- looks really cool </offtopic>), and rebooting would not solve it. Instead, restoring the defaults on Totem or whatever you use to watch videos works just fine.

[fasmike]

I have a similar problem to what some of you are describing except I have a blue hue over everything, not just Movie Player. When I adjust the hue in Movie Player it just changes the color of the photo negative effect it doesn't get rid of it.

I looked at the NVIDIA X Server settings and found my hue was set to 0 and moving that slider had no effect in any way, good or bad, almost like it was being ignored.

I have a NVIDIA Quadro 770M on a Dell Precision M4400. This was a fresh install of 9.10 on a new laptop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm still browsing the forums for a clue.

[JBAlaska]

Have you tried using VLC player to see if it's localized to your video driver or mplayer? The version of VLC in the Karmic repo seems to be a good one. Smoother HD playback for me than mplayer.

[fasmike]

Have you tried using VLC player to see if it's localized to your video driver or mplayer? The version of VLC in the Karmic repo seems to be a good one. Smoother HD playback for me than mplayer.

I'm not sure if this was meant for me, but I went ahead and tried VNC to see if that helped. It seems like the blue haze does not appear on my second machine when I connect to the affected laptop...however this revealed a second problem to me. I only get a screen shot of my Ubuntu box. I can see the mouse moving on the Ubuntu machine, but on my client machine nothing moves. I'll figure this one out later.

What does a clear VNC session suggest to you?

Hmmmmm....you said VLC not VNC...my bad. But it did show me that my video seems ok from a remote session (maybe).