Wrong colors when viewing FLVs with MPC or VLC, but not FLVplayer?

[shutz]

I searched these forums but couldn't find anything that answers my questions.

I usually use Ook? Video Ook! (Firefox plugin) to download FLVs off Youtube, Google Video and other sites. Works like a charm.

Thing is, for a few of the videos, when I view them on Media Player Classic (v6.4.9.0) using ffdshow (version nov 28 2006 17:38:24) to decode the video stream, or on VLC (v0.8.6), one of the color layers is misaligned by about 2/3 of the width of the picture. This means that flesh tones look too pink/purple, and there's some yellow splotches where there shouldn't be.

This only applies to about one in maybe 20-30 videos I download. when I play the videos with FLVplayer, or when I watch them on the original site, the colors are all ok. But I hate FLVplayer, as its resizing (when it works) is blocky (no smoothing) and it doesn't do full-screen or playlists.

Has anyone else ever seen this? Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? I tried running FLV Meta-data Injector on it, hoping it might help realign the color layers, but I think there's still a bug in the open-source FLV-decoding engine that both ffdshow and VLC use... I'll try to find the latest version of ffdshow to see if this fixes it, but I don't know what else to try.

Oh, and when I convert those "bad" videos using Super, the results are ok, but I don't want to lose even more quality, and I don't want to have to do all this conversion...

[celtic_druid]

Super I would also think is using libavcodec for decoding. You could try a recent ffplayer or mplayer build since they would most likely contain a newer revision of libavcodec then ffdshow or VLC.

[shutz]

Thanks for the reply, but since then, I've updated ffdshow to the latest nightly build, and the problem is gone.

I just hope that this thread will remain here long enough in case someone else has this problem so they can read about one possible solution.