[crowba]

Hi,

I am facing wrong colors in videos for a while. Colors in XBMC menu are all fine but when i start playing video colors seems to be wrong. This came into my mind when i was watching Simpsons today. Skin color there is not like the yellow i know, its more of a greenish yellow, something just seems to be wrong there.

ATV2 is connected to LCD TV with HDMI, all other stuff like Set Top box or Bluray blayer showing fine colors, anad as i said, XBMC menu colors are also fine. Simpsons Fanart just looks fine, just colors in videos are somehow wrong ?!

XBMC 10.0-7, AppleTV2 breaked with Greenpois0n RC6

[crowba]

No one facing the same issues ?

[bobo1on1]

Start by posting a screenshot.

[crowba]

How to screenshot on ATV2 with an apple remote?

[crowba]

Screenshot shows even worse colors. This is not what i see on the tv screen - tv screen colors are not that bad but show wrong color



This is how the video should look like:



And this is how they look compared. TV screen is bright greenish yellow while laptop shows right yellow color (Simpsons skin color). Photo screwed up colors a bit but laptop shows right colors. This occures only when playing files with ATV2 build. PC build shows right color when connected via hdmi laptop->same tv





Video Info

Code:

Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
File size                        : 233 MiB
Duration                         : 21mn 5s
Overall bit rate                 : 1 544 Kbps
Writing application              : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library                  : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                   : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP            : 1
Format settings, QPel            : No
Format settings, GMC             : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix          : Default (H.263)
Codec ID                         : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                    : XviD
Duration                         : 21mn 5s
Bit rate                         : 1 390 Kbps
Width                            : 512 pixels
Height                           : 368 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 1.391
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.295
Stream size                      : 210 MiB (90%)
Writing library                  : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID                               : 1
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 3
Mode                             : Joint stereo
Mode extension                   : MS Stereo
Codec ID                         : 55
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Duration                         : 21mn 5s
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 144 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 21.3 MiB (9%)
Alignment                        : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration     : 130 ms
Writing library                  : LAME3.98r
Encoding settings                : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17.5 --abr 144

[crowba]

Seems no one facing this issue?!

[Pagan]

I'm having the same problem. I was watching a Saw movie, and noticed the blood color was pink instead of red. Made the movie not so gory anymore . I'm hooked up to a Samsung LCD. Colors in the XBMC menu are correct indeed.

Hope someone will know what's causing the problem.

I'm using the latest official build with greenpois0n.

[Memphiz]

i had a similar issue with some movies when watching with the gnome totem player under ubuntu ... watching with vlc fixed this (if i remember correct) - could you try it with some players on a linux mashine? In my case the movies just where crap.

[crowba]

Same file played via vlc hooked to same tv shows right colors. Just xbmc seems to dispay incorrect colors and as said just in videos, menu colors show fine

[toshiba1]

if you could provide a 10 second sample of this xvid video and make it available, others could play it and see results..

you could try these free programs to trim/edit xvid avi:
mac or win: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPEG_StreamClip
win: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SolveigMM_AVI_Trimmer

[crowba]

sample

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7CQKA752

[Timbo1980]

Question for you guys having colour problems: Are you running the apple tv with a Philipps TV set? If so, according to numerous user ratings of the apple TV itself on amazon.de , there seems to be a hardware issue. Apple TV doesn't work well with Phillips TVs. After a while, the colors will get awkwardly changed. Link (german): http://www.amazon.de/Apple-kabellose-Ver...ewpoints=1

[crowba]

No, Samsung 40" here

[toshiba1]

here's what the sample looks like on my Panasonic plasma TV. I admit, the yellow of the Simpson's skin looks very very bright yellow (too bright) on my TV. But still I imagine the colors are much more close to accurate for me here.. XBMC 10.0-7, ATV2 greenpois0n RC6

[bobo1on1]

Right, screenshots are borked on atv2, the RGBA pixels are interpreted as BGRA, should be simple to fix in the gimp or photoshop.
This is what it's supposed to be: