Smurf/'Blue Face' Issue When Taking Screenshots in VLC

[Ghosts]

I recently installed Windows 7, and then the most recent drivers for my NVIDIA GEForce 8400 video card. I had installed more recent versions of VLC but then I'm dealing with this graininess/pixelation issue (this as well, so I downgraded to one of the 0.8 versions. That didn't work at all (I had a black screen, just audio), so I went back to the most recently release.


Since then, I've been having the "blue face" issue but only when I take screenshots. It's slightly aggravating and I have gone through every single post here that my search turned up, and the only thing that fixed it was using DirectX video output, but then it turns off Aero and not only does the basic Windows 7 theme slightly lag my PC, it's annoying have the theme swap on and off each time I want to watch something (as well as the graininess) -- it seems I can either have no screen cap capabilities and have proper video (Open GL output) or graininess and proper screenshots (Direct X output).

Is there a fix, or should I just find a new player?



Stats:
Windows 7, latest graphics drivers for NVIDIA GEForce 8400 graphics card. VLC version 1.0.2


Much thanks.

[ElenaLauder]

Same smurf-issue here, I don't know what I can do.
I change some settings one day long, made some test without success.

I configure Desktop resolution, 16/32bit color, Hz-settings.
Settings in VLC, Video-output, YU-RGB, Video-modus, install and reinstall codecs.

I don't know what I can do.
I will pay 100 Euro for solving problem.

Namaste
Elena

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Did you try VLC 1.1.0-RC build?

[ElenaLauder]

Hi j-b

Thank you very much for your respond.
I use Version 1.0.5 Goldeneye.
I have read now some wikipedia article and I found a solution.
(Sometimes helps if you have distance to the problem/issue!)
I solved my problem with following command:

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:dshow-chroma=I420

(Video-Input-Chroma-Format)

Now the color are correct.
Sorry for disturbing, but maybe this helps somebody else.
Namaste
Elena

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Try VLC 1.1.0 nonetheless.

[ElenaLauder]

Thank you I give a try.
Namaste
Elena

[gato2008chile]

Same smurf-issue here, I don't know what I can do.
I change some settings one day long, made some test without success.

I configure Desktop resolution, 16/32bit color, Hz-settings.
Settings in VLC, Video-output, YU-RGB, Video-modus, install and reinstall codecs.

I don't know what I can do.
I will pay 100 Euro for solving problem.

Namaste
Elena

Try to stoping the video(better without video loaded), change the video output to OpenGL and exit
Test again.