my video has too much green

[babygodzilla]

there's all this green hue on the video. wtf is going on? i've installed K-Lite and Combined Codec Pack. ive tried VLC Player, Media Player 10, Media Player Classic, etc. all looks like this. please help?
thanks!



ive uninstalled klite and CCCP with no effect. help?

[lordsmurf]

Codec packs damaged your system. Uninstall them all, and pray you don't have to re-format the OS too.

[babygodzilla]

damaged my system? well if its software then i must be able to revert it somehow. reinstall something or another?

[edDV]

The picture didn't come through. Just an 820x937 empty box. Try again. Remove any spaces from the file name.

What was the source file format? Can you post a few frames of source so we can have a go at it?

[darkknight145]

check your display settings, right click desktop, properties, settings advanced, overlay. check the setting, probably different for different video cards. the overlay settings will affect video only and not desktop etc.

[lordsmurf]

Classic codec error. Codec packs are crap, they make a mess of system codecs, sometimes beyond repair.

[FulciLives]

Classic codec error. Codec packs are crap, they make a mess of system codecs, sometimes beyond repair.

In other words there is sometimes no easy way if any way at all to fix it other than doing a clean install of the OS in question.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[lordsmurf]

Some of the codec packs pretty much screw up how the OS handles codecs, or replaces OS-native codecs, thus screwing the system. Been there, done that, years ago.

[Squash]

Green problems are often associated with improper resolutions. If your video dimensions are really 820x937 then there's a good chance that's it. See this thread for tips to fix:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic354623.html

[babygodzilla]

The picture didn't come through. Just an 820x937 empty box. Try again. Remove any spaces from the file name.

What was the source file format? Can you post a few frames of source so we can have a go at it?

oh really? sorry about that. it came thru just fine for me. here's the direct link http://uploader.ws/upload/200809/P1000757.jpg

[babygodzilla]

Green problems are often associated with improper resolutions. If your video dimensions are really 820x937 then there's a good chance that's it. See this thread for tips to fix:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic354623.html

i'm not quite sure how to determine that since this is a DVD. is that thread applicable to DVDs? I read through it and looks like it's only applicable to AVI files.

[Squash]

No, my advice wouldn't apply to a retail DVD; it was just a wild guess made in the absence of any information about the video source. If it's a downloaded DVD rip, though, who knows.

I'd check out darkknight145's overlay suggestion. Since overlay can only be used in one player at a time, here's a quick way to check it out and adjust your overlay settings:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic343581.html#1795685

Alternatively, you could turn off overlay in VLC ("Settings...Preferences...Video": Untick "Overlay video support").

If that's no help, then there's a good chance you've got codec conflicts like lordsmurf suggested. Good luck with that.

If you want more help, do like edDV suggested and post a short clip. If you're not familiar with how to do this, one easy way is to use DGIndex. Download the "DGMPGDec Version 1.5.2 Executables" from http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec.html . Unzip the contents to a new folder, then double-click on DGIndex.exe, then "File...Open...OK" one of the VOB files in your DVD's VIDEO_TS folder. Use the bottom slider to go to a point where there's a good green sample. Start your selection by clicking the "[" button in the lower right, then advance about 25 clicks using the ">" button, then end your selection with the "]" button. Now "File...Save Project and Demux Video", naming it clip or somesuch. It should be about 8MB and will have a .m2v extension. Upload to your favorite file-sharing location and post a link.

[jagabo]

Start up two instances of VLC. Play the video in both of them at the same time. Is one green the other normal? If so, you have a problem with your graphics card's video overlay feature. Fiddle with the video settings in its setup applet.