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When i take a screen shot my PNG. comes out with a blue tint .... This is with Version 1.0.1

DVD

x264 MKV

Version 0.9.9 fix's the problem for me.......

This has been reported a few times. I had the same problem with 1.0.1 on two computers. I like to call it "blue face".

On one computer, running Win2K sp4, > Tools > Preferences > Reset Preferences solved the problem. That was as suggested here.

On the other computer, a laptop running XP sp3 and ATI Catalyst Control Center 2007.1205.1451.26462, that didn't work, other ways of resetting the preferences didn't work, and reverting to 0.9.9 (I couldn't find 0.9.9a at Old Versions) didn't work either. One solution is mplayerc.

The two problems might be different. In one, the one resetting solved, normally pinkish faces were blue, but other colours were also skewed--but not necessarily in the blue direction. In the one I haven't been able to solve, you can see a lot of blue around, but it is most noticeable in the faces.

Here is one where Red and Blue seem reversed. The response refers to a vlc problem tracker. Unfortunately, the tracker seems to have been offline for some weeks (I've tried a handful of times over that period). I believe that is the one solved on my Win2K computer by erasing the preferences.

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=27300&p=196316&hil ... 03#p196316

The more purely blue face problem, displayed so well by the OP, here on an XP laptop, however, remains.

Here's another one, from about a month ago:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=63501&p=212135&hilit=blue#p212135

Using the hint provided, I get pretty much the same results as the OP:

Default
DirectX video output
DirectX 3D video output, or
Windows GDI video output:

good rendering, but faces blue, sky reddish.

OpenGL:

colours correct, but playback jerky. Playback of video freezes
after a couple of minutes (audio continues).

Video memory module or
Image video output:

no video.

Color ascii art:

apparently correct colours (!) but of course the, ah, resolution, is nonsense.

I guess the answer must be that "they're working on it", hidden in the brevity of this response:

"It is colorspace conversion issue then because OpenGL defaults to RGB while others don't. So code changes are required."

In general, I used to prefer using even an old version of vlc over mplayerc, but since reverting to 099 doesn't solve the problem....