White color drives me crazy!

[invasi0n]

Hi,

I recorded my desktop using Camtasia 4.0.2 and the white color is properly displayed. See here: http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/1947/camtasiarc6.jpg

When playing the clip with VLC the white color is not displayed properly. See here: http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3813/asdadadda1.png

But if I take a screenshot in VLC (using CTRL+ALT+S) the screenshot displays a clean white. See here: http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1198 ... 100ro7.png

The question is why do I have a different white displayed when playing the clip?

Thanks.

PS: The clip is an uncompressed .AVI but it doesn't matter if is compressed or not the result is the same.

[funman]

the 2nd png is all black for me

try to change the video output module (preferences > video)

[VLC_help]

It is overlay problem (or least I would be on it). You can disable overlay from VLC and colors should be fine. Problem is prolly in display adapters control panel, which has some wrong color settings for overlay or you have some driver version which has some bug with overlay colors.

Overlay video output

[invasi0n]

Thanks for replies guys but the problem is not solved.

I just discovered that the only way for me to get a clean white, a proper white color, is to lower the Hardware Acceleration.

At this point (http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/4186/goodcf1.jpg) VLC displays a clean, proper white color, but when increasing the Hardware Acceleration the white color becomes more like gray. I also noticed the same problem when playing the clip in WMP 11, but the problem doesn't occur when playing a clip with Camtasia player.

[VLC_help]

Update your drivers (Nvidia and if you have AGP version of that 7300 also update you AGP/GART driver). Disabling overlay should fix that, because display adapter driver shouldn't modify video picture anymore (that is why Flash videos are ok, but many other mediaplayers show bad image).