What causes a pink screen?

**butterflyblue226** · July 9th, 2004, 01:47 AM

In the past I have DL'd a few videos that produce a "pink screen" with slanting black lines across it. My reaction has been to simply scap the DL.

There is once again a file I am trying to view. It is the first episode of a series and forms the basis for the plot. I have completed two copies of it and find them to be "pink screens" with poor audio. I have checked them with GSpot and they both show workable codecs.

Does anyone know the cause is or how I can make them watchable?

butterflyblue226

**alliercollins** · July 9th, 2004, 01:49 AM

Take a look at http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiw...w_articles.php

It may fix your problems.

**MushroomheadXIII** · July 9th, 2004, 01:57 AM

I've had pink screens or messed up screens. My media player (videolan) supported the video but after playing it with windows media it worked, no screens. Whether or not both media players support the same video format, every player plays/encodes them different.

**alliercollins** · July 9th, 2004, 01:59 AM

Every player plays files differently. I can sometimes get vcds/svcds to work well in media player and sometimes I can get them to work well in WinDVD Platinum 6. It usually seems like it will work well in one or the other. I save VLC for when the file is really, really corrupted and it seems to be able to save it most of the time and make it playable.

**butterflyblue226** · July 9th, 2004, 03:33 AM

Thanks for the lead, but I went to the sight and am at a loss to locate the article you think would help me. Can you offer any further help?
butterflyblue226

**shawners** · July 9th, 2004, 04:55 AM

may have pink eye?

i never ever noticed a pink screen.. what file sharing program are you getting these from?

**Miniver** · July 9th, 2004, 06:07 AM

A pink marker!

**mcovey** · July 9th, 2004, 08:05 AM

I think DVDs have pink screens when you take a screenshot, some type of protection. Of course DeCSS provides a nice way around that.

**napho** · July 9th, 2004, 08:24 AM

You could also try disabling video overlay. That sometimes works and also lets you take screenshots in players that don't normally support that.

**alliercollins** · July 9th, 2004, 09:58 AM

I sent you there to download ffdshow:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ Maybe that part of the sf site will be better for you to find it.

**WRFan** · July 9th, 2004, 10:04 AM

a pink screen is produced by colour blind monitors. actually it's the blue screen of death, but due to your monitor's colourblindness the colour is messed up. lol

**butterflyblue226** · July 9th, 2004, 11:53 AM

Thanks for your trying to help. I use WinMx (have DL'd the new 3.53 ver) and have almost since its inception.The player I'm using is WMP 9.0.

**butterflyblue226** · July 9th, 2004, 11:55 AM

I don't know what DeCSS is?

butterflyblue226

**butterflyblue226** · July 9th, 2004, 11:57 AM

Sorry but I don't know what DeCSS is?

butterflyblue226

**Omyn** · July 9th, 2004, 12:07 PM

Maybe a new thing the MPAA is doing to movie downloaders?

Are there other movies you own, that you have not downloaded when this started happening?

Searched on google and came up with 3 results for why you may have this problem, one was an Apple LCD screen and one was a problem with dell video cards I believe.

Best of luck fixing the problem :]