Excellent summary Conn. Thanks for that. Could you 'apt-get source' both the packages for totem and for a known-working program (vlc?), then locate the appropriate place/file in each so that we can compare the broken code to the good.
Doing a: grep -r XV_CONTRAST in the source tree maybe enough to find the place where it is set/queried. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Rejected ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: xorg => totem Status: Rejected => Confirmed -- Xv movies on 810/i945 gives horrible color, Gamma https://launchpad.net/bugs/32963 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs