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There are a bunch of forum posts about this issue from the last several years but no resolution that I could find. I have the newest VLC installed on Windows 7 with the newest nvidia drivers. Suddenly, VLC plays some videos in such a way as faces are blue. When viewed in another media player, or when looking at the thumbnails, this is not an issue. Other videos are not affected.

I've tried resetting VLC options, deleting the VLC folder in the AppData area, etc. I have no other color issues. Does anyone have a fix?

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When it happens, is it just faces (ie, building look normal) or does everything in the video look that way? When it happens, is it just the video (eg the desktop and other windows look normal) or does everything look that way? – Synetech Feb 6 at 3:33
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This might be a clue to the problem for the video experts.

I too am experiencing blue faces on people in some vob files which have been transcoded from avi files using avi2dvd. In VLC the avi file displays correctly but the vob files do not (I get the blue faces). My problem is not restricted to VLC, I get blue faces in Nero Showtime and Power DVD, and also through my Seagate Theatre+. This only happens with some avi files, not all.

So from my perspective it doesn't appear to be a VLC issue.

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Is it just the faces or is there a hue shift in other objects as well? – Lèse majesté Apr 8 at 21:54
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Avatar mode XD. Anyway, I think there may be a problem with the codecs VLC uses for video format. Is there a specific type of video format that this happens to, or it just entirely random? If it does happen to be for a specific video type, try downloading new codecs for it.

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I thought VLC had all its codecs hard-coded into it? – Mala Apr 1 '10 at 23:59
What codecs use the video files that don't display correctly? Do they use the same codec? – Andi Apr 25 '10 at 11:55
I'm not sure... i'm not sure how to check the codec of a video – Mala Apr 28 '10 at 21:33
@Mala: VLC comes with a lot of internal codecs, but also allows you to use external codecs (found in VLC\plugins\codec). You can see what video codec is being used by hitting Ctrl+J to bring up the Codec Information window. – Lèse majesté Apr 8 at 21:48
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It's a bug in the video drivers. Just go to VLC settings and change the video output type until it works.

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