I'm Getting weird colors in Quicktime HD movie trailers

[tedhbrown]

Whenever I try to watch an HD trailer on apple's website, I keep getting weird color problems throughout the entire video. Most noticably people have blue skin. Here's a screenshot that I took from the latest king kong trailer:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1433/kingkonghd7hb.jpg

As you can see, Peter Jackson looks like he's about to pass out due to lack of oxygen.

Anyone know what the problem could be? The colors seem to be fine in regular quicktime videos, however I have experienced a similar problem in certain .avi videos in windows media player.

 

[xtknight]

If this happens in WMP: Use Overlay instead. Tools-->Options-->Performance-->Advanced and unselect "use high quality mode". One of Microsoft's stupid bugs.

 

[frombauer]

I'm having the same problem. Starngely, when I open some menu or option box in the player, the colors returno to normal, but they crap out again I close the menu. Non-HD MOVs play fine, as well as any other video in WMP.

 

[xtknight]

Odd. Does my above suggestion fix it? I've had this and switching to Overlay fixed it for me. Not optimal, but it works. Also some Overlay setting in ffdshow I enabled let me run high quality mode in WMP.

 

[frombauer]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Odd. Does my above suggestion fix it? I've had this and switching to Overlay fixed it for me. Not optimal, but it works. Also some Overlay setting in ffdshow I enabled let me run high quality mode in WMP.

It doesn't happen in WMP, just Quicktime. Tried Quicktime alternate, same problem.

 

[frombauer]

anyone?

 

[xtknight]

Go to edit->preferences->quicktime settings->advanced. Try using GDI safe mode instead.

 

[AndyD2k]

That fixes it for me but what do I lose if I use safe mode? The conflict is with DirectX?

 

[AndyD2k]

Plus, quicktime is crashing more than it should be. I never had these issues before. I'm guessing something is up with version 7

 

[V-ism]

I have this problem too. It used to work fine, only things I did recently that may have caused it is either upgrade the drivers for my geforce 6800 gt or installing windowblinds 5. I'm gonna try to figure which of these did it.

 

[V-ism]

So I did a driver clean and reinstalled the nvidia drives and everything is back to normal.

Never mind, the next time I played something it's blue again.

 

[Trevelyan]

Got this problem too...


Any solution yet? Does anyone have this problem with a non-Nvidia graphics card?