Saturated colours while watching an AVI

[fiiido]

Hi all,
I recently built a computer which I have plugged into my Plasma TV. I use Videolan to watch AVI films but the colours are saturated with bright yellows, blues, reds, etc. I connected the PC to a normal monitor and the propblem persists. I downloaded the XviD codec but no help there. Normal PC colours are fine, e.g. windows and jpeg files. I have the Geforce FX5200 128M card.

Any help would be appreaciated.

Mandeep

[jagabo]

Start up two instances of VLC. Play a video in both instances at the same time. Do they look different? if so, go to the graphics card's setup applet and adjust the video overlay settings.

[fiiido]

Hi,
I adjusted the saturation slider in the video overlay but it didn't help, just went from bright black & whites to bright colours. I then played around and in the Colour Correction screen I change the Colour profile to Advanced Mode and not Standard Mode. That seemed to have done the trick. No idea why and I have never done that with any of my other PCs or laptops.

Any explanation?

Mandeep

[jagabo]

Video drivers are just full of bugs like that. Note that most video files use a YUV colorspace rather than RGB. It's the tanslation from YUV to RGB (for display an RGB monitor) that's usually messed up in the drivers. Usually adjusting the overlay settings fixes the problems. Sometimes you have to update to newer drivers.