Media player colour buggered?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-10-30 06:55am

For some reason VLC is rendering video as way, way too dark. Everything else (desktop, games, ingame cutscenes etc) is fine, but opening a media file results in retardedly dark video. I recently upgraded my nVidia video drivers, so maybe it broke something. Any ideas?

JLTucker · Post by **JLTucker** » 2006-10-30 08:31am

Try going to Program Files > VideoLAN > Reset VLC defaults and quit

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2006-10-30 10:13am

Tried uninstalling VLC and doing a fresh install? It's not my first choice for video playback, but a clean installation of the latest version should fix it.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-10-30 03:36pm

JLTucker wrote:Try going to Program Files > VideoLAN > Reset VLC defaults and quit

Woo, thanks. Fuck knows when I pressed the 'dark as shit' button, though. It's all good now.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-10-31 10:26pm

Bah. It kept doing it: I had to reset the settings every time I opened a window. However, it's now graduated to a plain pink square. It's not even bothering to render the video anymore, and it's got the codecs etc, and it was working fine an hour ago. I call hax.

EDIT - it isn't just VLC: media player classic gives me the green square of not-decoding as well. I've tried removing and reapplying xvid, but no joy.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2006-10-31 10:30pm

Stark wrote:Bah. It kept doing it: I had to reset the settings every time I opened a window. However, it's now graduated to a plain pink square. It's not even bothering to render the video anymore, and it's got the codecs etc, and it was working fine an hour ago. I call hax.

EDIT - it isn't just VLC: media player classic gives me the green square of not-decoding as well. I've tried removing and reapplying xvid, but no joy.

It sounds like purely a hardware problem then. Likely something to do with your new drivers. VLC uses its own internal codecs, so maybe doing a system restore to before your drivers were installed?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-10-31 10:33pm

You assume I have a system restore point.

Oh dear: I went to the device settings for video display, and it's got the hue/brightness etc settings and a test image. The test image, however, is just a green box. This seems sub optimal.

EDIT2 - er, for a second it said 'overlay not available' on the green box. Have I turned something off somewhere?

EDIT3 - lol, the new nvidia configuration thing just crashed itself. Maybe I should go back to older drivers.

Dominus Atheos · Post by **Dominus Atheos** » 2006-10-31 11:31pm

Stark wrote:EDIT3 - lol, the new nvidia configuration thing just crashed itself. Maybe I should go back to older drivers.

What model of video card do you have?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-10-31 11:55pm

It's a 6600GT, and going back to the earlier, non 91.47 drivers fixed it. Fucking nvidia bullshit.