Strange Colors in Video Playback

thanks for the solution, it was driving me crazy.

Thanks, it did help me while googling :)

So glad I found this - fixed the problem I've been having since I installed a new 7600GS a few days ago.

Now videos don't have the washed-out, dark look.

Thanks

Thanks alot! I couldn't figure out what I did wrong and was starting to rollback all my windows media thing...

For people that need help... it should be in desktop properties > Setting > Advanced > overlay

holy crap thank you this was driving me insane...why would nvidia default to such a wacked out setting?!

Thank you a lot! I had to format my PC, and the last driver for NVIDIA FX 5200 in XFX website comes with that problem. When googling for "nvidia strange colors", this post appears at the head of the list. :-)
BTW, too bad the driver comes with such a dumb error...

Thx alot for the help, was really nice of you to make this article the problem was driving me nuts, and I was happy to find a quick and easy solution to the problem.

Your the man. I was going insane trying to figure it out.
Its under Video Overlay. I just set it to default. Thanks again bro.

Thanks a lot, really helped

Totally helped.

yep....thanks alot..solved a problem i`ve had for ages...

Thanks! That really helped, couldn't NVIDIA fix this? How unprofessionnal...

The porblem is not fixed on Vista 32 because they removed the Color Temperature from Control Panel so the video playback is still red for me. Anyone having the same issue (8600 GTS, Forceware 158.24)

u rock, thanks soo much, all my vids were looking horrible, everything is perfect now

So I've seen a similar problem, but I'm not sure it is fixed in the control panel.
Basically if I play a full screen game (all 3d these days), if I then try to play a video it'll be super dark with only the brightest of red/orange showing through. It'll stay that way until reboot. I thought perhaps it was drivers, nope, or perhaps a game that didn't set the pallette back, but several games do this (I don't mean there are some that don't, I mean that I've tried several and all do the same)
Any ideas?

I got exactly the same problem, I hate it allways having to restart my pc for just wanting to watch a video...

I tried to fix it with the overlay thing, but most of the times it has no effect (depends if I have played a game or not). I allready tried several things (like downloading too many drivers) but I cant fix this, if someone finds a solution post here ;).

I've got the same problem described in response #15 and I've found the only solution for me (I have a 6800GT with latest farceware drivers) is to right click desktop - settings - advanced - then simply click the nvidia tab. Everything goes back to normal then until I reboot and play another game. Very strange, I'm thinking it has to do with directshow not playing nice with ffdshow's latest build. I'm gonna check the overlay settings since some of you reported it helped. for those of you it doesn't, just try my trick... it might work.

...also try turning off all graphics card acceleration...click apply....then turn it on again. worked for me! cheers

nice of you to think of others

Thanks, it just changed all of the sudden and could not figure out what was going on. It was driving me nuts and it was great to find this before I started really messing around with the drivers etc.

I have no idea why the setting for videos changed suddenly, but thanks for the Googleness!

Thanks a lot, this saved me a lot time!

I found this while googling. My problem was that the email attachments with videos would bring out strange colors, but regular videos already stored on the computer would work ok.

So, the basic idea is to solve the "overlay" problem. In Windows Media Player, Tools > Options > Performance > Advanced > Uncheck "Use video mixing render" and "use overlays". That should do it.

Thank you so much!
That's a huge relief.
It was driving me mad as well.

My solution was while in the Windows Media Player, Go to Tools> Options...> Preferences, then uncheck the Use media mixing renderer. That completely fixed it.

thnx - was driving me round the bend

Thanks mate! It helped me straightaway fix weird colors in my video!
Cheers!

Thanks, mmichie and npr! Would never had known where to look without your help. Unchecking overlays worked great.

Cheers for this, I couldn't work out why DivX was fine but every other video program was weird colours!

Great post, it’s a concept that has become extremely important to keep the information and messaging flow maintained on blogs. I agree.

it helped me for sure :) 10x mate

Great stuff, saved me a lot of time.

Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooo much. This has been disturbing for ages, diddnt find this the first times I google.

/HUG