Colour settings are wrong in Totem

Sean Hammond sean.hammond at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 15:22:06 UTC 2006


Well, I found some bug reports which appear to describe the same problem:

https://launchpad.net/distros/debian/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-i810/+bug/32963

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/47566

Looks like updating to all the latest packages may solve it, but the
bug hasn't been completely squashed yet.

On 7/19/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Colin, did you manage to get rid of the problem when you saw it? Maybe
> if I reinstall all the xine and totem libraries, resetting the config
> files too?
>
> On 7/18/06, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
> > On 7/18/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Just upgraded a laptop to Dapper. Replaced xine-ui with totem-xine.
> > > When playing DVDs, the colour settings are all wrong, to get it to
> > > look right we have to fiddle with the brightness, contrast, etc. We
> > > can never get it quite right, and the required settings are different
> > > for every movie.
> >
> > I've seen this problem as well, under Dapper as well as Breezy.
> > Blown-out highlights and garish colors? You have to turn brightness
> > way down?
> >
> > I've never figured what out caused it, nor why it seems to affect
> > certain media players (xine et al) and not others (ie, vlc).
> > Apparently the former share certain libraries and therefore use the
> > same settings.
> >
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