AVI files play ok but other video formats play with wrong colors

If anyone here has NVIDIA card like I do chances are it’s a very simple solution.
Open your NVIDIA control panel (right click desktop)
click “Video & Television”
click “adjust video color settings”
check you gamma settings.
mine was at -8 changed to +10 and all looks perfect now.
hope this helps at least one person

Had same problem with my Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS

Went into NVidia control panel and selected video and television settings then adjust video colour settings then after fiddling with it a bit only to make it worse i selected restore defaults and it fixed.At last!

ATI AIW 2006 with this green/purple/black video across all files types. Fixed it by turning down hardware acceleration on adapter properties in video settings. Nice fix? Hardware acceleration sounds like something I’d like!

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hey guys I been having this problem for a while now (guess it was since I put in the new card lol) it was driving me nuts I just wanted to say thanks a million

I tweaked my overlay setting just a tad on my evga nvidia geforce 7900, fixed it. thanks you bastards

I have the same problem too. I installed the latest NVidia graphics drivers, latest DirectX, and latest Windows Media Player, as well as the latest DivX and XVid codecs. Colors still inverted. This used to work, one of the updates above made it bad.

The problem does get fixed when I move the hardware accelerated graphics slider to the middle. And the picture is upside-down when hardware acceleration is fully turned off.

Does anybody know how to fix this without turning off hardware acceleration?

Any help is greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Whale

thanks Draico13 for your help
everything works fine

I have de same problem, inverted and purple videos too.

For ATi cards, to reiterate:

Open your video settings(pref “Catalyst Control Center” expand “Video”, choose “All Settings”, scroll down and uncheck “Windows Media Acceleration."

More often than not, this will fix it.

Similar to all of these problems, any time i try to play a video the colour comes out as really white, like a milky wash has gone over it. Any suggestions? thanks.

having the same color problems but in firefox and ie browser

dirle wrote: Cracked it!!
Go to your graphics card options.
Properties for overlay, restore standards.
Go to color adjustments, choose overlay and play around with contrast and light until you are satisfied.

this was on a Geforce 7900GT, how this is don on a ATI card i don’t know.

omfg..... you are my savior... god man i have been tryign to figure this out for almost a year...i love you. this solved my problem, the overlay was set to “in” and the hue and saturation were jacked way up. i reset defaults and it was all gravy.

THANK YOU!

Hi.

I had the same problem.

I found this page;

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/mediaadvice/0066.mspx

It’s working great...

I have the same problem... is there no solution to this?

same problem for all included me - be no one good solution!

I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 card in my laptop. My problem was exact the same: all video (even DVD playback) in strange colors. BUT: only for one XP user; for the other user (my girlfriend) playback was just fine. The solution: use the “Restore defaults” button in the “Color Correction” section of the video card config utility. It seems some program messed up those settings; i sure as hell didn’t do it myself :-)

I am having major problems with wmv files. They look green and orange. I have done every single solution known to man and NOTHING helps.

I’ve unchecked wmv. acceleration option, I’ve got the latest drivers, I updated to wmp 11.
Any suggestions?

I had the same problem,found that I could ony use media player 10 and what I did was drag and drop the file into the library first then double click on said file in the library. Also changed the advanced settings by turning off high quality mode (didn’t make much difference)then it played fine.

had the same prob with nero show time(gave up on it)


Hope this helps.

yeah.. it’s a nightmare... worked fine for me.. then I reinstalled windows.. and then it would’nt work,.. getting very dark colours.. avi’s play ok.. but mpeg’s.. I’ve installed a million codecs.. it’s not a gfx problem.. it’s a codec problem.. I reinstalled windows again and before installing anything else.. including the video card driver.. I installed ffdshow and problem solved... it’s a nightmare issue.. I could’nt resolve it unless reinstalling windows.. good luck

lol.. now here’s something strange... it’s different.. but it worked for me... If i load an mpg in divx or in media player.. both load with dark images.. but I found if I load it in divx.. pause it.. then while it’s still open.. opened it in media player.. it played fine... wierd...