Mike's Planet Just a Big Ball of Gas

1. 

   alfmatos
   May 16th, 2007 - 15:56

   Hi, great work thanks, i have this bug too on a Thinkpad/ATI setup.

   Unfortunately that didn’t work for me. My [Test] here fails with “Custom: could not link xvimagesink1 to ffmpegcsp1″ and the videos still apear with a blueish hue.

   Any packages i should install for this to work properly ?
2. 

   Mike
   May 16th, 2007 - 22:15

   Try installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
   sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
3. 

   alfmatos
   May 17th, 2007 - 02:50

   Hi, I was changing the Input part instead of the Output. Dohh! All worked fine as soon as i got that down. Great job/fix! Thanks a lot. I was really getting tired of the “blue people”.
4. 

   MoRpHeUz
   May 17th, 2007 - 13:55

   Great tip! thanks!-
5. 

   Gadren
   June 20th, 2007 - 09:26

   Thanks so much! Worked like a charm.
6. 

   cddot
   July 2nd, 2007 - 12:12

   In the middle of changing the pipeline value, I accidentally closed the window. Now on starting up, it core dumps:

   gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin ‘artsdsink’
   gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin ‘pulsesink’
   gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin ’sdlvideosink’
   Segmentation fault (core dumped)

   Reinstalling gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg makes no difference. Probably something needs cleaning up… any suggestions what/how?
7. 

   cddot
   July 2nd, 2007 - 13:08

   Right. A remove before the install fixed the core dump problem. Unfortunately, it did not fix the blue hue problem. The “test” seems to bring up colours OK. Any suggestions?
8. 

   Kyle
   July 12th, 2007 - 20:03

   Thank you so much! That color thing has been driving me nuts for a long time! Worked great in Feisty.
9. 

   sean
   September 7th, 2007 - 09:50

   Oh spot on! Not sure about the problem description though. It looked to me as though red and blue were swapped. That’s what I searched for anyway, so now maybe the next person will find this! The fix doesn’t look obvious to me, any chance of more info (or a link) on how the fix was discovered? Thanks!
10. 

    Tiboy
    September 21st, 2007 - 00:54

    Thank you a lot ! Works like a charm Thanks again !!
11. 

    vboy
    October 12th, 2007 - 20:22

    works like a charm, make sure that you change back your colors that you were messing with once you type it in though. one more note though, it seems that that package (sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg) is installed now on feisty, or at least currently unnecessary. but it does look as though this is a confliction with fglrx.
12. 

    Al_In_Utica
    December 5th, 2007 - 22:47

    Great tutorial, Mike. Can you explain why this fixes it?
13. 

    Giovanni
    May 5th, 2008 - 11:23

    Yoh!!
    Great tip, it worked out like a charm for Feisty, but has i upgraded to hardy heron it mushed up di video, so i rolled back to automatic and everything plugs again..
    irie
    gio
14. 

    RedRat
    May 15th, 2008 - 18:32

    Thanks but the fix does not appear to work for me at least. made all the changes and the color remained the same, predominantly blue or a dead red channel. The only way I can get the video back to “normal” is by rebooting. BTW, I am running Hardy Herron and a Dell 530n with Nvideo GT8600 card and nvidia drivers.

    I have found that if I run VLC everything seems ok, but if I then run mplayer, this causes the blue hue. Actually it really appears as if the green and red channel are dead.
15. 

    Peitschie
    June 9th, 2008 - 20:18

    Hi RedHat,

    I had the same problem. I used this line instead of the above one:
    videobalance hue=-1 ! autovideosink

    Nothing like a good home-brew hack
16. 

    Marc
    July 21st, 2008 - 11:21

    Peitschie, videobalance hue=-1 ! autovideosink works great! Appearantly it even solved a problem mplayer had about slow videos!
    But it only solved mplayer’s problem and kaffein is still blue… Any suggestions?
17. 

    Marc
    July 21st, 2008 - 13:46

    Oh, back to blue and green again…
18. 

    Marc
    July 22nd, 2008 - 11:43

    Seems to be caused by MythTV, which changes the hue settings for videos. I uninstalled it and fixed the hue settings in MPlayers back to default. Fingers crossed it will stay fixed…
19. 

    Marc
    July 26th, 2008 - 12:56

    Nope happened again even though MythTV is removed…

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