Blue skin tones in DivX clip

[Kail]

I just downloaded a movie and tried to play it in WMP, with no success, neither did DivX Player work. But WinAmp3 was able to play the movie, only odd thing was the skin tones which were blue. Red and yellow objects look alright, but all faces, hands etc are blue. Can this be corrected by adjusting the player settings or is it encoded in the video file?

Would be great with some explanation as I've never seen anything similar.

[TomboyMs]

I've noticed the blue tint on several DivX movies that I have downloaded. It drives me crazy. I would like an explanation as well.

[homerpez]

Me THREE.

Maybe I can help to narrow down what is causing this... though I haven't solved this myself.

I also prefer to use Winamp 3's player to Windows Media, and here's where playback stands now:

I can playback XVID and DivX movies on both WMP and Winamp3.

Playback on Winamp3 has a violent blue tint.

Playback using WMP, PowerDVD or WinDVD = Normal!

This is awfully confusing, as I thought Winamp3 used the same codecs as Windows Media!?

BTW... I had normal playback on ALL, until I removed an old Nimo codec pack, installed another, uninstalled EVERYTHING, then re-installed the latest Nimo.

Does anyone know which thing to look at?

EDIT: More info... I just redid everything, I manually deleted all the DivX codecs, and re-installed Nimo... It should be playing everything with the correct codec (3.11 Alpha plays with 3.11 codec, 4.12 plays with 4.12, 5.02 with 5.02), I still get the same problem when playing in Winamp3 ONLY. WMP plays okay (but Winamp3 is a bit more friendly to use).

EDIT AGAIN: I think this only happens to me on MPEG-2 files, and XVID codec files. It looks like actual DivX codec files play okay in Winamp, just these types are bluish tint...

[TomboyMs]

Hmmm. I'm not sure that I'm getting this blue tint because of a codec problem. I think it must be something in the original encoding.

I have tried playing these movies in several different players as well (WMP, RealOne, Twins Video Player, even VirtualDub) but on certain DivX movies I always get the blue tint. I have the latest DivX and Nimo Codecs, but maybe I will try uninstalling and re-installing them like you did.

One thing that has helped somewhat is the hue/saturation/intensity filter for VirtualDub. I re-encoded some samples using the filter and it helped a lot on some of them, but it's pretty hopeless if the blue tint is really bad.

I figure that my best bet is to check movies for the dreaded blue tint before I download em.

[homerpez]

Weird thing about my problem (just to consolidate the mayhem I posted before)...

Winamp 3 plays some movies "blue", while WMP plays the same movies fine!

So it's not so much the codecs, but how Winamp 3 is accessing them, I think...

I have a feeling we'll be asking this question for some time to come...