Weird colour problem with Real Video and Skype

[Michael C]

mike cloaked wrote:
> I have a Dell Inspiron 530S desktop with an Nvidia graphics card.
> The hardware is at
> http://www.smolts.org/show?UUID=pub_f3670c10-289f-4e85-804b-60babb27fb23
>
> The machine runs F8 fully up to date and has kmod-nvidia installed.
> The desktop is KDE3.5
>
> Almost everything runs well and without any problems - but for a long
> time there has been a really awful colour problem when running Real video
> and Skype.
>
> Two examples of the problem are on the screenshots at:
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mhvk1t&s=4
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20ggy84&s=4
> These were obtained by going to the test page at
> http://service.real.com/test/
> and running the videos - it does not seem to make any difference installing
> a different version of Realplayer.
> I have the same setup on a different machine with different hardware and
> not running kmod-nvidia and there is no problem with colour with the same
> tests.
>
> Flash video on web pages is fine and I am not aware of other colour issues but
> I have been unable to fathom out how to fix this problem.
>
> Does anyone have any hints as to what I may do, or a workaround, or
> suggestion as to where I might look to fix this?
>
>   

Just as a matter of interest, Mike, in RealPlayer have you unchecked
"Use XVideo" (Tools > Preferences > Hardware > Driver Options)?