Color is off in MKV videos

[Xenogear900]

I'm trying to play some MKV videos on my laptop. I tried the K-Lite codec pack, I tried installing the codecs individually, I tried Media Player Classic, and VLC.

The only program I could get to play the MKVs was VLC, and it did so with the color off. So for example, if there was a red flag....you'd see the red shading above the flag. The color was not on key.

Please help!

[jagabo]

Try MPCHC. It has many more built in decoders than MPC. It also includes an MKV reader/splitter. Uninstall K-Lite.

You might also have video overlay problems. Open the same video in two instances of VLC. Does one look good the other messed up?

[SatStorm]

That's a codec / muxer problem.

Did you tried ffdshow and reset all settings?