Bad colors for Video

[pmrphs2002]

Hey guys
Just upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 Community

All of the colors in X are fine... But videos dont have the colors they're supposed to have at all!

Its the same between all formats, from a DivX Avi to a simple MPEG. Anybody know whats goin on?

[JamminJoeyB]

Sounds like a driver issue to me.

What kind of video card do you have?

Did you install the drivers?

Did you update X?

Have you taken off those free MS rose colored glasses? LOL

[pmrphs2002]

Shoot......forgot about the glasses....well that changes everything!

But no, I didn't install the NVidia drivers- and im pretty sure that I was watching videos before I installed the graphics driver in 9,2 or even 9.0. Ill try to get the drivers installed today, but if anyone has any other thoughts, by all means......

Pete

[sploo22]

Have you tried a different player program? Which one are you using now?

This isn't directly Linux-related, but I have a similar problem in Winamp3 under Windows. I think it swaps the two chrominance channels or something, or maybe the red and the blue.

[pmrphs2002]

Actually, It happens with all the players which kinda makes me think it was a driver issue...except that both the video and sound works......just the colors a little off...

So far ive tried...

Totom
NoAtun
MPlayer...

[sploo22]

Just out of curiosity, does "mplayer -vop rgb2bgr=swap filename.avi" get the colors right?

[pmrphs2002]

In short, no it doesn't.

The video looks blue....like thats the only real color coming through. I can't think of the video term for this...the contrast? is all awack....

I doubt it'll make any difference, but the video is being accessed VIA a Linux fileserver over 100MB/s ethernet cabling

[sploo22]

Could you post a screenshot?