Videos play with purple tint on friend's computer

[Avalon]

We went to go watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith on his PC, since I had just rented it from Blockbuster, and upon firing it up in WinDVD, we saw the film was purple. We tried it in WMP and Classic also, and same thing. I even tried a different film, an anime clip encoded in OGG audio using the matroska MKV pack, and that played in purple also.

Has anyone seen this before?

 

[Gamingphreek]

Is everything purple or is it just Video Playback.

If it is Video playback go into the overlay settings in the drivers and try adjusting the hue.

If this occurs throughout, you may have a short or a bad VGA/DVI cable. To find it go along the cord just wiggling it gently as you go. If the screen suddenly flickers and changes colors you have just found your problem.

-Kevin

 

[xtknight]

Probably your Overlay video settings. Possibly a problem with Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) too. In WMP try disabling "high quality mode" (tools, options, performance, advanced) or in Classic it's view, options, output, and choose overlay.

 

[Avalon]

Thanks. It's only videos. I'll try both of your suggestions and let you know.

Alright, I tried changing the video overlay settings in both WMP and Classic, and nothing happened. High Quality mode was already disabled, and wiggling the VGA cable didn't cause any flickering or change of color. Hmm.

 

[sisq0kidd]

If you're using old nVidia drivers, that might explain it. I remember one of the 77.xx drivers had problems with overlay.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
If you're using old nVidia drivers, that might explain it. I remember one of the 77.xx drivers had problems with overlay.

67.66 also did I believe. I had problems with deinterlacing and weird colors at the edge of my TV app window.

 

[Avalon]

Hmm, you know what. The Nvidia forcewares were recently upgraded to the 79.11 set.

 

[Zstream]

Turn off video hardware acceleration

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Zstream
Turn off video hardware acceleration

Haven't tried that yet, but rebooting the system seems to have temporarily cured the problem. Videos are playing fine for the moment. I wonder what triggers it...