Day in, day out…

I was watching the Apple Get a Mac ads today and this is what I got:

Incorrect hue in videos can be corrected by fixing the hue setting in Movie Player

This is on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), where Firefox uses GStreamer plug-in to display video. Movie Player (Applications -> Sound & Video -> Movie Player) also uses GStreamer as its back-end.

So to fix the hue issue, I opened Movie Player preferences (Edit -> Preferences). In the Display tab, under section Color Balance noticed the Hue. In my case it was set to the minimum value. I clicked on the Reset to Defaults button. It reset the Hue slider to a center position.

Closed Movie Player preferences and reloaded the movie. It looked so much better.

Now I wonder what changed the Hue setting in the first place…