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I did a post on this previously, but that solution was not ideal. Essentially, there are two versions of Totem, one using xine and one using gstreamer. The gstreamer one is the default and it is the one that has color problems when paired with an ATI card and (I believe) the FGLRX drivers, so the easy solution seemed to be to switch to the xine version. I’ve since discovered a better answer.

Simply run gstreamer-properties from a terminal and switch to the video tab. Change the top option (the video output plugin) to custom. Change the pipeline to:

ffmpegcolorspace ! video/x-raw-yuv,format=(fourcc)YV12 ! xvimagesink

and test it out. That solved the problem for me (after adjusting the hue back to normal). Blues are blue. Reds are red. Greens are green. What a concept!