[gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

[gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

[William Kenworthy]

Hi, Ive recently rebuilt a few things and Ive just noticed that my
movies (the few clips that I have are mostly MS AFS and avi are all
greyscale) have no colour!  This occurs with xine and totem - mplayer is
going through one of its always segfaulting stages so I cant tell if its
related to this problem or not.

The only apps I can think of that were relevant were win32codecs and
ffmpeg which I am currently rebuilding but dont think will help.  Any
clues that may help welcome!

BillK

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Re: [gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

[Ian Hastie]

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:47:56 +0800
William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Hi, Ive recently rebuilt a few things and Ive just noticed that my
> movies (the few clips that I have are mostly MS AFS and avi are all
> greyscale) have no colour!  This occurs with xine and totem - mplayer
> is going through one of its always segfaulting stages so I cant tell
> if its related to this problem or not.
> 
> The only apps I can think of that were relevant were win32codecs and
> ffmpeg which I am currently rebuilding but dont think will help.  Any
> clues that may help welcome!

My immediate thought is that the colour settings for xv overlay have got
messed up. In xine have a look at the "xine Control Window".  That
should enable you to make some sensible settings.  If you don't mind a
text programme have a look at the output of xvinfo.

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Re: [gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

[William Kenworthy]

Thanks, but Ive just fixed it - well rather its fixed but I dont know
the cause.  I recompiled a number of video programs and related stuff,
and after a reboot its all back to normal.

Thanks,
BillK

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 05:04 +0100, Ian Hastie wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:47:56 +0800
> William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Ive recently rebuilt a few things and Ive just noticed that my
> > movies (the few clips that I have are mostly MS AFS and avi are all
> > greyscale) have no colour!  This occurs with xine and totem - mplayer
> > is going through one of its always segfaulting stages so I cant tell
> > if its related to this problem or not.
> > 
> > The only apps I can think of that were relevant were win32codecs and
> > ffmpeg which I am currently rebuilding but dont think will help.  Any
> > clues that may help welcome!
> 
> My immediate thought is that the colour settings for xv overlay have got
> messed up. In xine have a look at the "xine Control Window".  That
> should enable you to make some sensible settings.  If you don't mind a
> text programme have a look at the output of xvinfo.
> 
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> Ian.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

[Ian Hastie]

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:39:39 +0800
William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Thanks, but Ive just fixed it - well rather its fixed but I dont know
> the cause.  I recompiled a number of video programs and related stuff,
> and after a reboot its all back to normal.

The reboot would have fixed it.  Programmes like xine use Xv overlay to
do their video output.  This has video controls including colour
settings very similar to a TV set.  If they get set wrong you get no
colour, or some other weirdness happens.  When you rebooted the overlay
controls will have got set to sensible defaults.

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