Captured video displays inconsistent colours

[jonny1234]

Hi,

I have captured some video using the MainConcept MJPG codec on Windows 2000. When I open it in VirtualDub or AVIUtl, it displays using the colours I would expect, but when I open it in Windows Media Player, the colours are different (the colour balance looks red).

I assume that Windows Media Player must be using a different codec, but I thought that since the video was encoded using the MainConcept codec, then that would always be the one used for decoding? I'm not aware of any other MJPG codecs on my PC.

I would like Windows Media Player to display the video using the same colours as VirtualDub.

Please can you help.

Regards,
Jonny

[Dot50Cal]

Tools>Options>Performance>Advanced

Uncheck Use Video Mixing Renderer

See if that helps, im not quite sure what it does but Ive had issues with it before and this cleared em up.

[jonny1234]

Thanks for the tip, Dot50Cal, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

I've been investigating some more, and I think it has something to do with the capture process, because when I open the file in AVIUtl and save it using the same codec with the "no recompress" option, it displays OK in Windows Media Player.

Could you recommend a different video capture program for me to try. At the moment, I am using a freeware program called Video Ghost, which allows me to choose the codec for capturing.

Thanks,
Jonny

[Dot50Cal]

Johnny, Give Virtualdub a try. http://www.virtualdub.org/