Pantalaimon 2 Posted September 24, 2018 Posted September 24, 2018 (edited) I'm having some problem with 4K HDR content for a while now. Whenever I try to play 4K HDR content on my nVidia Shield, it rarely detects HDR and gives me washed out colors most of the time. For a while I thought HDR was broken altogether, but it appears that on rare occasions HDR decides to kick in on playback. I can't find a constant factor. I've fiddled around with the settings and tried multiple video files, but the issue seems completely random. It's not a problem with the TV itself; it plays HDR blurays just fine. Edited September 24, 2018 by Pantalaimon
agentp1 1 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 There seems to be plenty of reports of this , I have the same issue myself. All hdr content works fine on plex, but emby only a few titles work. I've tried the beta version of client and it's still the same. Fyi I'm using nvidia shield. Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
ebr 15503 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 There seems to be plenty of reports of this , I have the same issue myself. All hdr content works fine on plex, but emby only a few titles work. I've tried the beta version of client and it's still the same. Fyi I'm using nvidia shield. Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk And, what is different about the ones that work vs. the ones that don't?
agentp1 1 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 This works... Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
agentp1 1 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 This doesn't , and it works ok on plex etc Thanks Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
agentp1 1 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 On plex it says exoplayer v2 / direct player Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
Jdiesel 1253 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 The vertical resolution on the video that doesn't work is 1920. Can you confirm that the other files that don't work have a vertical resolution other than 2160?
Jdiesel 1253 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 As a test can you make sure the Shields system resolution is set to 2160p and disable refresh rate switching in the Emby app and try the video again. I'm wondering if the refresh rate/resolution switching is getting choked up by the 1920 vertical resolution and switching the output.
Pantalaimon 2 Posted October 20, 2018 Author Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) Looking at the photos by agentp1, I noticed the video where HDR works is full-frame 3840x2160, whereas the resolution on the other video is cropped. This sounded familiar, as another topic of mine about 4K resolution switching also originated from cropped formats. I've tested this theory, and it seems full-frame 3840x2160 HDR videos indeed play with HDR, and cropped formats have issues. Funny thing is that after I play a few moments of a full-frame video with HDR, and then start a cropped video, good change (but not always) HDR will work as well. However any other cropped video after that will fail again. Never mind this last part, can't reproduce it systematically. I've tested with cropped formats around 3840x1600 Edited October 20, 2018 by Pantalaimon
agentp1 1 Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 Yes!!! Some hdr will only work after first finding hdr that always works! I thought that was odd... not in to test unfortunately Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
Guest asrequested Posted October 20, 2018 Posted October 20, 2018 That does seem to be consistent. I just tried playing a range of HDR titles. The titles that are cropped, play with no HDR. The full frame titles play with HDR, although, I have one movie that won't play at all and it's being transcoded (sent log at 12.15pm)
agentp1 1 Posted October 26, 2018 Posted October 26, 2018 This also works fine on emby Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
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