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The mysterious color that lets you see videos!!!

mysteriouscolor.blogspot.com — At first I was skeptical but then I tried it and it actually worked. This is one of the strangest things I have ever seen.

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  • zelenjava, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36i remember this color from winamp avs desktop visualization function
    • Bara, on 10/12/2007, -3/+96That's pretty cool... I have noticed this before but never thought to associate it with a color...
    • bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44I had windows media player open and it worked. They have a mod like this for WoW so you can have a video open while playing.
    • BlackSheepx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39This is what always happened when I tried to take a screenshot of something in winamp or WMP along time ago, I would just get that color wherever I pasted it. Weird it works when published online too..
    • Icecream, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10If you open up WMP when a video is playing, and take a regular screen shot, when you look at the screen shot the box where the video was playing will be black. And has the same affect as this.
      Its pretty cool how this can be done just by selecting a colour.
    • towca, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7ditto. I got this when I took a screenshot of vlc many years ago... atleast I think they're the same thing. Didn't think it was an actual color. Nice find.

      EDIT: ahhhh. Really should refresh before posting comments.
    • vhold, on 10/12/2007, -2/+156This is what this is called: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_overlay
    • dire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26For those who play World of Warcraft, I used to use a mod named WoWVid. What this does is basically show a resizable box of the same color shown in the digg link so you can watch videos while playing WoW!

      This can be found here: http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/files/details/5169/wowvid-for-2-0/

      Enjoy!
    • turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -27/+5i like how i could read the secret message without having an overlay player.
      btw, macs play movies while being moved in expose and when minimized to dock
      imo, way cooler.
    • ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4thats is the exact same color, WMP uses for the area it displays the video in, so chances are it when the program is open anything with that color and in that are (x,y) will display the video
    • allisonaxe, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28@bergur1 and others who are talking about the WOW mod that does this:
      i find it hillarious that someone would want to watch a video while playing warcraft. what, are people getting bored with the game so that they want to do something else while playing?
    • floejoe, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6This does not work when you open something up on VLC player, but it does with WMP. Maybe it is just an exploit in WMP then.
    • ckirsch, on 10/12/2007, -24/+32Man, I really wanted to see the bug.

      It's a shame my mac doesn't malfunction when it sees the color purple. ;-)
    • knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42It's not a bug, it's a feature.
    • geezas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Holly crap it really works!
      ...It's awesome with MS paint :D
    • stlcadet11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22There's porn on this site...
    • hammydude, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4http://www.duggmirror.com
    • qwertydvorak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4@allisonaxe: i don't know about WoW, but i know when i used to play ultima online, you could macro skills up, or macro mining or other similar things. the only thing is, if a gm comes by and sees you, you have to be able to respond to them questioning you otherwise they know you are macroing. well, i would open a browser window along side uo and surf, or i would read the newspaper. i would guess it would be nice to watch tv tuner card, or movies while grinding in WoW if that is the case.
    • razordancer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@zelenjava - That was Dremples!
    • Jaryd2006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Something interesting you can do, Is turn your background into a solid color, With the Red color of 16, Blue of 16 and green of 0. Then you can play a video and minimize it. It will play on your desktop but with no media player around it!
    • DJPhoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Jaryd2006

      Beautiful! Find a video you want as a desktop, put it on repeat, let it play. Full Motion Desktop!
    • H3g3m0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I had a ATI 9800AIW with the tv tuner (horrible card).

      The built in software had a feature that let you run the TV on the desktop, it worked by setting the wallpaper to Magenta. So I set the default window background color to magenta also, then i could actually watch TV through windows rather than just behind them.
    • jonnyboy88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Here's a creative example:
      http://ytmndtheatre.ytmnd.com/
    • macro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ermmm...BSPlayer has a "desktop mode" that makes video as desktop wallpaper. Don't know why would someone need it.
    • veracon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3javascript:void(document.body.style.background='#100010')

      Now you can see porn through digg!
    • ericrous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's due to the hardware overlay function that a lot of video cards use. I first noticed it back when I bought my first DVD drive (the trusty old Creative Dxr2). It allows the card to overcome the limitations of your processor by running videos as an overlay. It's still an issue if you use the "clone display" function in some systems (one monitor will see the video, the other won't).
  • awsoma, on 10/12/2007, -12/+225WITCHCRAFT!!!
    • mnetlucas, on 10/12/2007, -23/+5Oh no! Call Laura Mallory...

      if you don't know what I am talking about google it
    • Deamond606, on 10/12/2007, -19/+1BLASPHEMY!
    • TheDreadDiggerD, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", Arthur C. Clarke So, are we calling Windows Media Player advanced tech?
    • bseay, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1I guess so
  • Sornos, on 10/12/2007, -19/+8Didn't work for me...
    • anicejew, on 10/12/2007, -55/+8Doesn't work for me either, I'm using the latest version of Safari.
    • shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Doesnt work with VLC or mplayer. WMP did it though. It works for any media player that uses that color, if you want to get the color that any particular media player uses, take a screen shot of it while its playing.
    • reidypeidy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6I guess it doesn't really work for Macs though. It didn't work for for the Windows media player for mac, quicktime, vlc, or mplayer. I'll have to try it on my work computer tomorrow then.
    • alej744, on 10/12/2007, -19/+9No ***** it doesnt work for macs
    • slothlovechunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10turn on overlay.
    • mdnash, on 10/12/2007, -30/+4thats because macs are superior. they dont have these odd flaws
    • dreamlayers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This colour is for Windows Media Player and perhaps all software which uses DirectShow to play video. Other software which uses the overlay can choose a different colour. Try taking a screenshot. If you get a box of one colour where the video was then try using that colour.
    • JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It didn't work for me, and I'll expand on the comment above mine "turn on overlays"

      Go into settings for WMP. go to performance, check "use overlay". restart WMP. play video, pull up that color. BAM!
    • Tricky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I believe VLC running in Windows 98 uses black. It gets really annoying, because message boxes and stuff overlay in an annoying fashion.
    • zeeky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Wherever this color is, thats where a hardware overlay in WMP is allowed to be seen. On Macs, there is no color determining where hardware overlays can show through, this is a windows only thing. This will also not work if you have hardware acceleration turned off, because the CPU is doing all the work, and no hardware overlay is being made.
    • khlae, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Actually, Macs do use hardware overlay.
      I can't speak for OS X, but Apple DVD player and (sometimes) Quicktime in Mac os 9 uses a dark green color.
      I am pretty sure that Apple Video player(for the apple tv tuners and video inputs) also uses this.
    • gauthierm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6zeeky: Xv on linux uses the same video hardware methods so it is not a windows only thing. This is a feature built into video hardware.
  • bigfork181, on 10/12/2007, -14/+16Does this not work with Windows Media Player 11 because I can't get it to work there? but i got it to work with Winamp.
    • bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5mine worked
    • reknaps, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Why digg him down?
      Did not work for me either. Also using Windows Media Player 11 and firefox.
    • JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It didn't work for me, and I've got WMP 11, and I'll expand on the comment above mine "turn on overlays"

      Go into settings for WMP. go to performance, check "use overlay". restart WMP. play video, pull up that color. BAM!
    • NtHammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2worked for me, i have wmp11 and firefox2
  • Roger, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Cool find.

    That must be the color used to represent transparency or something.
  • ktan91, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Worked for me with WMP 11. I just played a video.. making sure it was over the box.. then made the box over WMP and i could still see the video ;)
    • 5thfreedom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I tried it with quicktime and it didn't work. Why would it only work with WMP?
    • 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does quicktime only use software rendering?
    • jivemasta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6quicktime might use a different overlay color...
    • turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4i am pretty sure quicktime doesn't do it the lame way.
    • dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yeh, Quicktime doesn't use the colour-key overlay "thing" to display video, but it's really not that "mysterious", it's extremely common
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_overlay
      - Ben
  • ph3rny, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6its like the image u get when u take a screenshot of a dvd... not that i have tried that recently
  • Fihiro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2its how VLC makes desktop backgrounds display video correct?
  • addrake, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2Make a blank .bmp with that color and make it your desktop background.
    • fulldecent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+47OK, and then open the movie and put it behind the desktop.
    • shawnr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Even easier -- just remove your desktop image and set the desktop background color to R:16 G:0 B:16 in Desktop Properties.
    • mikesty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8... and then what? How do I move the player behind the desktop?
    • MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Just download VLC and play your movie and then right click and choose Wallpaper and your video will play as your desktop wallpaper. Really cool feature.
  • punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This kind of thing used to happen when I took screen caps and saved them in paint. Weird and can be annoying sometimes. Anybody have an explanation of this?
    • TheTrueAPlus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Its the video overlay done by the graphics card.
    • jivemasta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The video goes straight to the video card instead of through the graphics layer of the OS. So when you take a screenshot, it only captures what windows sees. You can turn overlay off in the preferences too when you need to take a screenshot.
    • bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can take screen caps of videos if your turn off hardware acceleration. Dont' expect smooth playback though.

      * Start
      * Control Panel
      * Display
      * Settings tab
      * Advanced button (at the bottom)
      * Troubleshoot tab
      * Crank the slider back to none

      Be sure to turn it back on!
  • JohnP, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6Is this how some people protect their videos from PRINT SCREEN?

    It makes sense, the website overlays this colour, and if you press print srcn you just get a block of this colour.
    • JohnP, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Nice to see my perfectly factual comment get dugg down. Dumbasses.
    • Lamtd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6You're the dumbass one, that's not the reason behind it.

      Come back when you have the slightest clue about computer hardware.
    • JohnP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lamtd - theres a very high chance i know more about hardware than you. And secondly my comment was factual in that it was pure speculation, there is no reason to digg down a comment which contains a question unless youre a complete *****. Not only that but the only facts described in my post are in fact REAL FACTS.

      Come back when you have the slightest grasp of the English language. Troll.
  • Caleb83, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46Why is stuff on my computer showing up on the internet?
  • jaba1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Pretty sure your video has to be outputting in overlay mode. VMR7 and 9 probably won't work with this.
    • TechnoPops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually would work with VMR7, since it still uses the overlay by default.
    • jaba1337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ah, yeah i forgot about that.
  • tj9991, on 10/12/2007, -28/+12Please don't tell me digg users are impressed by this :(
    • mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Wow, that is amazing!!
    • tacom8, on 10/12/2007, -18/+8Digg truly is run by 12 year old kids...

      /why is buddy being dugg down?
    • BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Its not that we are impressed by it its just that a lot of us have come across this phenomenon before and we find the explanation behind it interesting. :-/
  • directedition, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18People are just noticing this?
    • mutabi, on 10/12/2007, -23/+5how bout you try to explain it then smartass.......yeah thought so
    • vawksel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@mutabi

      It's simple. The video card is overlaying the video on color #FF00FF (magenta). If you put this color on the screen with a video in the background, the video card doesn't know the difference and it will display the video in its place.

      ... That's it really.

    • directedition, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"how bout you try to explain it then smartass.......yeah thought so"

      Umm... my comment was that this particular issue with video has been seen since the late 90s, not a discussion of the why or how it happens.
    • mutabi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4@vawksel
      Thank you for your explanation. Its always nice to see people trying to contribute something to society(digg), instead of people trying to be smart asses.

      I was genuinely curious as to why this was happening. I had seen it before but always just assumed it to be a bug. Thank you for satisfying my curiousity. +digg
    • mutabi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@directedition

      Thank you for your explanation as well. Sorry for being too quick to judge. :-)
    • slothlovechunk, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3What are you pansies talking about? His explanation sucked. He just used the words in a kind of circular way, pretending like they knew what they meant and then he even came up with the wrong color. 160016 does not look magenta to me, sure, it's a very dark magenta, but that kind of makes it black.

      Don't apologize to tools, it encourages them.
    • NinJA999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@vawksel: it's #100010.
  • wphj, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Doesn't happen in OS X, at least not with quicktime.
  • rocko213, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19dern' kids breakin' my windows with their baseballs and #10010 colors. GET OFF MA' LAWN!
    • NinJA999, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3actually i believe its #100010, not #10010.
  • Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I believe this only works if your video player is in overlay mode.

    Basically it is a performance hack that is used so that decoded video is presented directy to the screen so the video card does not need to process it. It is often used when you have separate decoding hardware on a system like the old Mpeg2 cards that would allow a really low end computer to still display full screen DVD movies.
  • xxdesmus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It works, Weird...so now I am curious why exactly this exists?
    • MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's faster for the video card to work this way.
    • manthrax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5(editL there are more thorough explanations further down in the thread.:P)
      Its faster for the video card because the card can modify the outging video signal directly, swapping any outgoing pixels of the magic color, with the video signal. In a software only configuration, the video signal has to be decoded, and sent to the framebuffer and then go out on the video frame along with the rest of the display image. Doing video with a chroma key also means that you aren't tied to the refresh rate of whatever software is drawing to the framebuffer, and doing page flipping, since the display part of the process is handled exclusively by the videocard.
    • xxdesmus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2excellent, thank you for the info guys. :)
  • luckytopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the reason this works is the overlay option in WMP is set on by default...

    turn it off and this doesn't work...
  • estacado, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Nothing happened. Must be a video settings thing.
  • nyrol2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What you can do, is just take a screenshot of a movie playing, and save it in paint. The place of where the video was supposed to be, will all be that colour, unless you choose not to have any video acceleration for video playback. If you make the gpu use the video, the cpu displays this colour to allow the gpu to place it behind. If you choose the cpu to do this (these are options that are easily changeable in windows), then that colour is not displayed, and just the video. This means that if your cpu renders video, then this will not work. But if your gpu does, then it will.
  • sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Happens under Windows with VLC too... and not just that colour, black (#000000) also. Something to do with the GUI painting and layers?
  • sporktek, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4Yay! Hey, if you think that's awesome, check out the ends of your legs.

    THEY'RE CALLED FEET!

    Yeah, go play with your new discoveries.
  • borsdy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Works with Media Player Classic for me.
  • Sornos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Ok, works for me in Winamp, but not WMP11.
  • stuartcow, on 11/08/2007, -10/+115NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW

    THE WEBSITE HAS PORN ON IT!!!

    wait.... ohhh... nvm... neat...
    • heaintheavy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5You, sir, get the Digger of the Month award for that comment.

      Very nice!
    • PurpleSfinx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You win this thread.
    • matt0baba, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3? u win at the internets ?
  • haveacigar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1odd, but it worked for me...

    if you want to see if it works, make a new text file, and open it.

    Copy and paste this


    body {background-color:rgb(16,0,16)};


    save and rename it color.htm, then open in your browser
    • remiprev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This will not work since the CSS rule is not inside a STYLE element.
    • haveacigar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oops... sorry i meant to post this


      body {background-color:rgb(16,0,16)};
  • mikesum32, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8Video/Hardware overlay ? C'mon people.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_overlay

    You didn't know this ?


    You can turn it off if you want to take a screenshot, at least in vlc.
    • gyrfalcon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Most digg users are teenage hax0rs... EGA, Monochrome, etc, are all new, cool things they had no friggen clue about. :)
  • deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7It's not really mysterious.. It's called a video overlay.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay
  • casualty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0so mysterious!!
  • eurleif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The basic explanation for this is that video needs to have a very high frame rate, and typical methods of drawing on a computer aren't fast enough. The workaround chosen by some video applications is to designate a special color (#100010 in this case) as the 'video color', fill the video window with that color, and send the video frames directly to the video card, telling it to blit the video over pixels of the special color. The special color is needed so that the video card can detect when other windows are on top of the video window and not paint video over them.

    The problem with this method is that it makes screenshots difficult, and doesn't allow anything to be alpha-blended on top of the video. (Also, it causes the weirdness this article is talking about, but that isn't much of a practical problem.)
  • ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It doesn't work with Divx player.
  • gregharmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm running Vista and it doesn't seem to work.
    • Laokaplow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1same here :(
    • gauthierm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're probably running Aero Glass. Overlay video mode can't work with geometrically transformed windows (live thumbnails, shrinking minimizing windows, etc). In Vista, video is probably a dynamic texture and rendered using the video card's 3D hardware. This is how XGL and AIGLX in Linux render video.
    • NoOnEx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if you are running aero this will not work, since it doesn't do hardware overlay, it is already using your accelerated graphics card to draw the desktop...
    • alexeiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But, we've got alt-print screen working on video instead.
  • 47knight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can turn off your video acceleration to disable this feature.
  • MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wrote a program a few years back that used this to play Yahoo Launch videos in the corner of the screen without the annoyingly huge bulk of its player window.
  • SnarkFish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's not just that color
    http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=91

    "The reason for the purple blotch where the video should be in a desktop screenshot of a video player is that it's the colorkey for clipping the overlay. With a rare exception here and there, overlays usually can't be directly clipped to anything more complex than a rectangle, or perhaps not at all. This is a problem when windows or title graphics need to overlap the overlay, so most hardware supports a destination colorkey, where the overlay is only shown if a specific color is drawn on the underlying primary surface. Any windows on top don't draw colorkey-colored pixels — hopefully, at least — so the overlay is hidden there and gets covered like the rest of the player window. Ugly and seldom-used colors are chosen for the colorkey to minimize collisions. I hate seeing flashes of nasty magenta or cyan when manipulating a video window, so VirtualDub uses #008000 dark green instead — which occasionally causes some interesting effects when I open Task Manager on top or stop the program at a breakpoint and look at some code comments where the overlay is still active.

    Using a colorkey for clipping does have the nice benefit of clipping 100% correctly, whereas blits frequently don't since the complex region gets cut up into subrects and the subrects then have coordinates rounded to integers, leading to seams. Direct3D uses a special blit command for its Present() that preserves enough data to avoid the rounding errors, but for some reason this capability wasn't added to DirectDraw's Blt().

    If you know DirectDraw programming and have an unsuspecting buddy, you can do some wicked practical jokes with a full-screen overlay surface that uses a white destination colorkey to show images in the background of random windows. Not that I've ever done that before."
  • MixMastaMetal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It doesn't work for me in WMP or WMC or VLC. Using Firefox as well, didn't try a blank image. Strange.
  • hungryduck17, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1for goodness sakes....this has been around for YEARS.....I used to use this when I used to do video/powerpoint work for presentations 10 years ago....
  • PommieZ, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Lame. It's a variation of Chroma Keying (or simply "Keying"). It's been around for DECADES, and is used for video overlaying between dissimilar video outputs. Instead of posting a blog about "wow, dude, check out what I noticed! It's MAGIC!" why don't you write up a "How'd They Do That?" article. And research it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keying_%28graphics%29

    (and yes, it was with a twinge of irony that I posted Wikipedia articles for the "Wikipedia Research" generation).
    • scooter12, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Your high horse called and said you're a dick.
    • PommieZ, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2@scooter12: A talking horse? I take it you're one of those "it's MAGIC!" believers.
      Learn to accept criticism. The world doesn't owe you a trophy for pooping in your pants.
    • webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Your high horse called and said you're a dick."

      Your unicorn called and said to polish his magic horn...
  • Hanneman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Doesn't occur in Vista...
    • Halifax1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Use a decent graphics card and it does. The overlay depends on your graphics card. If you have a piece of ***** onboard card running Vista it won't do anything.
    • ph3rny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2the reason it doesnt work in vista is because with aero glass enabled it uses this "overlay" style of rendering for everything, so it does not need chroma patches to overwrite
    • DigitAl56K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Actually my guess would be that with Aero the overlay is not used at all and everything gets drawn into a texture buffer that's rendered as a quad or pair of triangles.
    • Haohmaru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Halifax1
      Doesn't work on a Radeon X1950. You might want to get a clue before you start talking out your butt.
    • magic6435, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1im on vista with x1600 and it works fine
  • harrisonpowers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2works with mplayerc, awesome find
  • Qwiggalo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Useless knowledge, and very ancient.
  • dstreelm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2definatly saw the message without playing a video...i just adjusted my angle of view on my 15" powerbook
  • fotofunguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Creepy
  • bootle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13They lost me at "Open Windows Media Player"
    • Navitron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@bootle
      Same here, do people still use Windows Media Player? heh... :/
      Unfortunately I run my videos in VMR9 Renderless so no dark purple see through goodness for me ;(
  • mikesum32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The vlc color are red and green are 0 and blue is 1.

    Almost black.
    • delerivm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks, but even with that color I can't seem to get it to work with VLC in linux. Is this a Windows-only thing?
  • cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Damn! Now I have to reboot into Windows.
    • gauthierm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Xv in linux uses the same technology so unless you're running a mac you don't have to reboot to try this.
  • ninepound, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That's quite possibly the most amazing thing I've seen all month. Why does that color exist?
  • TrueJournals, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7List of colors I found:
    WMP (inc. Media Player Classic): RGB 16,0,16 (well, I took this from the article)
    VLC: RGB 0,0,1
    mPlayer: RGB 0,255,0
    Real Player: 16,0,16

    QuickTime does not use this technique.

    If you want me to test other players, post a reply and maybe I will...
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