Totem Gstreamer Hue Keep Changing (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS)

[cbsim]

Binary package hint: totem-gstreamer
System: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Totem hue: in Display>color Balance setting keep changing by itself and need to manually slide the bar to the end to get back to normal again.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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[Matteo Settenvini (tchernobog)]

Maybe I can help with this, since it's at least 6 months I'm seeing this intermittently on my PPC machine (could be related to the nv video drivers, dunno).

What happens is:
* start a movie in Totem, for example a mpeg4 video; the color is not very bright,
and sometimes a kind of sepia tone.
* go to Preferences, and look at the Hue and Saturation sliders. They're all in the middle. You can reset them with the appropriate button if necessary: the movie colors still don't show right.
* bring the slider of Hue to the right-end of the line
* now colors of the movie are back to normal: of an acceptable intensity and the movie is watchable.

The Hue and Saturation sliders seem to have an effect only on some cases and not on others; for example, I can reproduce this bug without problem on my PPC machine with an nVidia card, but those sliders do absolutely nothing no matter how I set them on my x86 machine with an i810 driver. But maybe this is a different kind of bug.

I'll try and see if I can take a screenshot of the issue -- but as I said, this bug is intermittent.

[Matteo Settenvini (tchernobog)]

This is a screenshot taken with my camera and hue set to the default values. You can see how the movie is desaturated.

[Matteo Settenvini (tchernobog)]

Hue changed for this specific movie. If I do reboot, open some other movie or what else, chances are I have to set the hue manually again.
I've also had some problems on the x86 (i810 card) but not with the Hue -- there it was the contrast to be too high for the default value.

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Related to Bug #184440