Comment 162 for bug 32963

Same problem here, with totem-gstreamer and Xv output. I don't remember if it was like that in the begining because i mainly use mplayer and vlc.
When I opened a video with totem, the video was black and white and corrupted the others video players as well. Only solution was to reboot (don't remember if simply reloggin worked) and to never let totem-gstreamer touch anything again.

I also confirme that Smplayer has the same problem, although Gnome mplayer, Gmplayer and mplayer don't.
I didn't have xine installed but i plan to check totem-xine, gxine and xine-ui.

Now the video isn't black and white anymore but the colors are totally messed up, contrast gamma saturation ect... probably due to an update, since i didn't check how totem was doing for a long time.
Reloggin a new session return "desinfect" the sain players

Using X11 solve the problem, but only in apparence since it bring it own issues. Too much cpu load cause me some laggs, flickering and audio and video are out of sync.

Configuration
Gutsy, xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.2.1.1 ubuntu9.1

lspci -vv:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])

dpkg -l | awk '/totem-/{print$1,$2m$3}':
ii libtotem-plparser72.20.0-0ubuntu3
ii totem-gstreamer2.20.0-0ubuntu3
ii totem-mozilla2.20.0-0ubuntu3