Video output colors wrong

[dsjolie]

I recently installed w64codecs, mplayer and non-free-codecs on an intrepid 8.10 64-bit (intel, Core 3 Duo) system with Nvidia graphics (Geforce 9500 GT) ... This resulted in all my movies playing very slowly and with wrong colors... Uninstalling your packages did not help! After a reboot movies played at normal speed but colors were still wrong with skin having a blue color (like a YUV/RGB confusion thing?) ... I used gstreamer-properties to set output to "plain X", without Xv, and I got correct colors....

WTF - now I was going to get you some pictures for proof and it seems things are back to normal! Right now I have your w64codecs package installed but nothing else... I won't spend more time on this right now but I'll post this bug report anyway, in case it comes in handy for future reference...

Hmm... One possible factor is that I entered the settings for the Nvidia X server as I wrote this... I didn't change anything but maybe something was refreshed somehow?

[update]

Something is very strange here... Colors are wrong again... It seemed like the Nvidia settings did something one more time but I can't reproduce it reliably, and I've only seen this in gstreamer-properties... With X11/XShm/Xv as output I always get wrong colors in Totem and I have to set VLC output to X11 to get correct colors...

Any idea what might be the problem? I did not have this before installing your packages....

/Daniel

[ar (arjenmeijernl)]

I had the same problem after an upgrade in Ubuntu 9.10. 64 bits Nvidia. All video players showed the film without the color red.

What happened is that the colorbalance was changed. Go to the Totem (!) mediaplayer, edit, preferences, second tab, press the button restore default.

All media players will play with the correct colors again.

Ar

[Rlgc79 (rlgc79)]

> What happened is that the colorbalance was changed. Go to the Totem (!) mediaplayer, edit, preferences, second tab, press the button restore default.

Thanks. After a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 beta install (keeping my old /home partition) I had this problem with the colors of my videos. The above procedure solved it! Now VLC, TOTEM, etc work again.

[Morten Minke (morten-amagi)]

I had the same issue after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 standard Ubuntu. For me there are two important issues/questions with this bug:

1. Apparently Totem is upgraded with wrong HUE settings for whatever reason
2. Why is a setting in Totem affecting all other video playback?

Anyway, now that I know how to fix it it is not that hard, but these kind of (small) issues which put newcommers back, because it does not run 'out of the box'. I hope this gets fixed before the official 9.10 launch.

[Boskoop (mr-boskoop)]

>I hope this gets fixed before the official 9.10 launch.

I just updated my 9.04 after karmic release to 9.10 and got the bug too.

But anyway: Thanks for the workaround!

[Jun Geng (jun)]

I just update to 9.10 today and still have this problem. Luckily, this is easily fixed by using ar's method. Thanks!

[xenesis (wagner-sim88)]

Please can anyone from the Ubuntu Team stand up as Assigne for this bug and get it fixed.

We want to be one of the best distributions, so we should have fixed such simple bugs BEFORE the release.
And if they are not fixed, the should at least have someone caring about them.

-1 for the test team.

[Stéphane Charette (stephanecharette)]

Found this bug via Google. For those like myself who were not familiar with "Totem" in Ar's workaround, click on Applications->Sound & Video->Movie Player.

The the rest is like Ar described: Edit->Preferences->Display->Reset To Defaults.

The fix worked well for me. (Ubuntu 9.10-64bit /w Nvidia graphics.) Thanks, Ar.

[wpoet (wp-sensotech)]

After the latest update (2009/12/08) the bug is still present. On my system (Ubuntu 9.10, Linux wp-tecra-s10 2.6.31-16-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 3 22:07:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux) colors are ok after boot, but when the system runs for a while, colors go berserk in the way described above. I found no apparent reason, yet.

But Ar's workaround is doing the job.

[José Jorge Enríquez (jenriquez)]

Restoring defaults does not work for me.