[Bug 862831] Re: colors are messed up when playing video in MOST applications

[Brian Murray]

This is likely and issue with your video driver so I am changing the
package to xorg.

** Package changed: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) => xorg (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  colors are messed up when playing video in MOST applications

Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This happens with ALL video files of many different formats and
  encoded with a lot of different codecs (h264, mjpeg, mpeg4, flv,
  ....), but not all files.  In ALL applications (different video
  players, video editing applications), when playing back video, it is
  displayed with wrong colors (everything looks bluish).

  IMPORTANT: even some videos that looked fine a few weeks ago are
  played with the messed up colors now. So it is definitely a regression
  in some recent update of some package that got updated automatically.

  
  However, when video previews and still frames are shown, they always are display correctly. The funny thing is that video is processed correctly, that is, whatever video editing application I use to read, process, and output the video, the resulting video is OK if I take it to another machine. All programs display it wrongly but process it correctly, so it is not a problem with the codecs. If I extract images from videos, for example, they are OK.

  The only application that shows the video correctly when playing is
  Avidemux.

  All the following applications play back the video with wrong colors:
  - Gnome MPlayer
  - Movie Player
  - VLC
  - Pitivi
  Thumbnails in Nautilus are shown correctly, and even in the above programs, frame previews in the timeline and thumbnails are shown correctly.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.207
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.59-generic 2.6.35.13
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Sep 29 23:43:49 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta

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