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

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

    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?


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

    it happened to me.... I did a clean reinstall...
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    Re: Weird colors on video playback (imac 9,1, karmic 9.10)

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

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

    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.

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

    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.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by ad5 View Post
    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 with Ubuntu 9.04 and Nvidia 185. There're some pictures.

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

    anyone know if the 190 drivers will fix this?

    edit: they dont
    Last edited by jamesey; November 6th, 2009 at 11:41 PM.

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

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

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

    is that curb your enthusiasm?
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    Re: Weird colors on video playback (imac 9,1, karmic 9.10)

    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.

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