VLC turned pink!

Echo

So all of a sudden each and every movie I try to play in VLC turned pink. Including stuff that worked yesterday.

I haven't fiddled with any settings, and an uninstall and upgrade to a newer version didn't help. So the only thing I can think of is some silly codec messing stuff up. I can't recall having installed anything lately that would add codecs, though.

Suggestions?

Bendit

Happened to me also, except I was all green or yellow.

in my case it was the nVidia video driver settings, under the video overlay(full screen) playback.

Echo

So I looked around the nVidia control panel, discovered that they retardified it with tons of wizards that don't do anything close to what I want to do, changed the refresh rate from 60hz to 70hz...

...and then it worked again.

Windows works in mysterious ways.

Echo

...ok, never mind. It turned dark red instead of pink.

Bendit

yeah.

I couldn't get nVidia control panel to come back to its original state.

I had re-install the nVidia drivers for my damn overlays to work again.

(I am not touching those settings again until they fix it)

I don't know, you might be screwed like I was.

I am curious, what's your video card? Mine's a 6800LE AGP.

Thanatos

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling VLC?

Considered the possibility that your video card has simply decided to come out of the closet? :P

Bendit

Yeah, it wasn't VLC for me.

VLC had nothing to do with it.

It was when I messed with the nVidia overlay settings (color adjustments to be more precise).

VLC is just using overlays and complying with nVidia's output settings.

headn00b

Very coincidentally my VLC went pink today as well. A restart was enough to fix it, thankfully.

I've had green before as well.

Sceptre

As a side note, what do "Post processing" and "De-interlacing" do?

stigweard

The former treis to further smooth out artifacts, and the latter removes different types of scan lines.

redstormpopcorn

I think Apo had this happen to him once. If I remember right, reinstalling his video drivers fixed it.

optical

This happens to me sometimes, just opening the video in windows media player real fast then opening it back up in VLC works.

No Cars Go

any reason to use VLC over WMP where file can play in either?

The Space Pope

No Cars Go wrote:

any reason to use VLC over WMP where file can play in either?

you dont need codecs and few more features

Echo

No Cars Go wrote:

any reason to use VLC over WMP where file can play in either?

VLC doesn't take 30 seconds to start.

Also, I solved it. Disabled overlay in the VLC settings.

...which worked before and I didn't change any video settings whatsoever. But I also discovered that my screen saver for some god damn reason got reset to 1 minute when I started having these problems.

Raneados

your WMP takes 30 seconds to start?

ouch

clrn0979

this forum is mad old but, I have had the same problem w vlc turning pink and haveing no video but audio. tried a bunch of diff setting to nao avail. but i turned off the Accelerated video output (Overlay), saved the setting and tried one of my videos again and viaola got my video back. I also changed the refresh rate on my 2nd monitor from 60Hrtz to 70Hrtz. Don't know if that helped but, I am able to watch my vids now and don't have to use WMP.