Loss of Colour in Videos

[duel]

Color Loss in Videos
Colour Loss in Videos


Hi Guys!

I have quite a strange and frustrating problem on my hands which seems to have occured quite randomly.

All of my videos have no or little colour. They can be avi, mpg, wmv, ogm, flv, you name it, the format makes no difference (although ogm has a little colour). It also makes no difference what media player I'm using. I've tried Windows Media Player / WMP, Video Lan Client / VLC and Winamp. There is one exception to this however;
Riva FLV player can play flv files in colour but again, these files are black and white in VLC.

Now colour elsewhere on my computer is fine and web videos also work in colour. I couldn't rollback WMP 10 (even in safe mode and trying several things) because it's being gay but here's what I've tried so far;


System restore to a period well before this problem occured and videos were playing in colour.
Reinstalling VLC
Restoring VLC's defaults
Played with Hardware Acceleration
Played with Resolution and Colour Depth
Reinstalling Codecs

I'm using

AVI Codec Pack 2.1
DivX MPEG-4 Codec 3.2.200 Beta
Windows Media Format Runtime

which I've reinstalled except for Windows Media Format Runtime because I first need to rollback WMP which I couldn't do. Computer specs are on my profile should you wish to know them however, my hardware has been playing media until recently without any problem at all so you shouldn't need it.

I found this guy with the exact same symptoms and randomness of it coming on, but unfortunately the fix occured as randomly as the problem and he seems clueless as to what happened!

Link

If you have any suggestions or feedback, I'd really like to hear it and I'm more than happy to provide any further information should you need it. Cheers!


duel

[jagabo]

A quick test: open two video players at the same time. Play a file in both of them. Do they look the same? If not, you have a video overlay problem (only one program can use video overlay). Go through your graphics card's configuration applet and look for video overlay settings. Crank up the color.

[duel]

Jagabo you absolute beauty. I did the test and sure enough, one of the videos was in colour. After searching about in my graphics options I found the saturation was on 0%. I put it back up to 100% and everything looks back to normal.

Many, many thanks. I couldn't have sorted this one alone

[jagabo]

Glad to help out.

[ozymango]

Jagabo, you rock! Talk about quick service!

I love this board.