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Author:  nmcaullay [ Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:49 am ]
Post subject:  Nvidia 185.18.14 and odd colours

Hi there,

I just upgraded my R6 using pacman (mythtv and nvidia 185.18.14), and noticed that all my recordings were playing in odd colours/colors. Green grass was blue, and faces were pink...

Turns out that mythtv was "taking control" of the picture, and setting the hue to -1000 whenever it started to play a recording/video.

I could use nvidia-settings to set the hue value back to normal, but then it would be re-set back to -1000 everytime i watched somethig... not ideal..

The fix was to disable mythtv from managing the colours, in the playback section (there is a check box that needs to be unset). Sorry, machine is off at the moment, so cant be more specific.

If you didnt have this option checked, you probably wouldnt have noticed.

Hope this helps someone else who gets a surprise when they upgrade.

Cheers,

Nathan

Author:  manicmike [ Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Nvidia 185.18.14 and odd colours

Hi Nathan,

I had that problem the other day: Fixed it permanently by using the remote. Menu -> Picture Controls -> Hue (working from memory here, so the middle menu item could be incorrectly named). Set it back to 50% and all working again.

Regards,

Mike

Author:  hackmeister [ Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:16 am ]
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I had the same issue. Everybody looked like a smurf with a blue color to them. To correct: Play a recording, hit menu>picture> hue
- slide it to 50% or whatever looks good on your system

Author:  azrambler [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:15 am ]
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Ditto, I had the exact same problem. I did the same as hackmeister and manicmike. Problem solved and no more Smurfs. I tried the first method mentioned and didn't have any luck with it.

Author:  nmcaullay [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:26 am ]
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From what my simple brain can understand, the option i have taken is to stop mythtv attempting to set picture controls (colours) - leave it to nvidia... the second option is to allow mythtv to set picture controls, but set the hue value to midrange (50%). i think i'll go for the second option when i get home, and see if i still get smurfs.

Author:  manicmike [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:50 am ]
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It's probably something really simple like someone at nvidia re-defining normal from 0% to 50% (in fact I'd almost bet money that this is exactly what happened).

Mike

Author:  Human [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:13 pm ]
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I discovered that this is more general than the interaction between the nVidia drivers and MythTV settings. It affects the color of all MPEG2 playback when vdpau is used, whether using MythTV's Internal player or mplayer (or, I would guess, any player that used vdpau).

Does anyone have ideas as to how to solve this in general without changing MythTV settings? FYI, flyspray bug is http://linhes.org/flyspray/index.php?do ... ask_id=437

Author:  Human [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:38 am ]
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I have a correction to my own post. vdpau isn't the problem. A bug in my in-progress mplayer-wrapper.pl was misfiring, and when I saw the color problems, I assumed vdpau was in use. Actually, xv was in use. You can verify the general problem by playing most videos (MPEG2 for certain) with mplayer, using "-vo xv" as a parameter.

The problem is still more general than the interaction between MythTV and the nvidia drivers, as it affects mplayer as well. It seems to be a bug in how the nvidia drivers handle xv.

New bug filed: http://knoppmyth.net/flyspray/index.php ... ask_id=438

Author:  Human [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:52 am ]
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manicmike wrote:
It's probably something really simple like someone at nvidia re-defining normal from 0% to 50% (in fact I'd almost bet money that this is exactly what happened).

You may be right, but in my testing, reds appear as blue, and blues appear as red; it seems like they swapped the values somewhere.

Author:  Human [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:43 pm ]
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Thanks to nmcaullay's initial post, I made Tweaker turn off the option that tells MythTV to mess with the color space. Building and testing now.

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