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VLC used to work fine for me on Win XP.

However ,of late ( Not sure if after I updated to 0.8.5) ,any video I open in VLC Player is 90% Blue in Color. Red doesnt appear at all.

The same video files(DivX,FLV,AVI) play perfectly fine in every other player like mplayer2,Windows media player or anything.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling.No use.

I uninstalled & installed the nightly release. "vlc-0.9.0-svn-20060926-1805-win32".Still, the videos are blue.

One thing I did was ,I installed K-lite Codec pack some weeks back (as i had lot of video editing to do).Iam not sure if thats what caused the problem.

Googling,shows that another user found that VLC videos play bluish after
installing K-lite codec pack.

I have uninstalled the k-lite codec,uninstalled VLC, reinstalled VLv,cleared the preference. Still the videos are bluish tinge.

DJ,I did read this post of yours. viewtopic.php?t=26869 . Not sure if it applies here since iam not trying to play DVD's

Please help fix this problem.

thanks.

Try erasing the preferences directory. C:\Documents and Settings\Owner (this is you)\Application Data\VLC Erase VLC, Application Data is a hidden directory so you will need to make it visible.

Then reboot your machine before trying VLC again.

I have already deleted the preference files,rebooted.
Still the videos are bluish.

Would it help changing the video to other color schemes like CMY,RGB etc..?

Unless your problem revolves around a capture device it seems unlikely that chroma formats is what's at issue here.

Have you tried resetting your video card to it's defaults for color, Direct3D, OpenGL and Overlay? Sometimes games improperly store settings here.

Issue Resolved !

Turns out that 'Hardware Acceleration' was the problem. It was set to level 3[That disables all direct draw & direct 3d accelerators]!! I set it back to maximum & VLC is playing fine now!!
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What had happened was,while I was doing the editing work on windows movie maker some weeks back,WMM kept crashing. One of the solutions i was suggested with was to lower the hardware acceleration to level 3.
But I had not returned the hardware acceleration to the original max position after the job was done.

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Thankyou DJ !

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p.s:I guess different players use directX differently. Inspite of hardware acceleration at level 3,WMP.mplayer2 played the video fine....

Yup! This is very true and all video cards respond a bit differently too.