Transcoding movies with 10 bit color, faded colors

[ZiemaF 0]

Hi,

I have a server on UnRaid, Docker is running on this server.

EMBY works on Docker, with HW transcoding (VAAPI Intel i5-8600k), generally works great.

I have a problem with films with 10bit color.

If I play the movie directly (without transcoding) the colors are ok.

If I turn on transcoding (to any resolution), the colors are so faded.

Can i do something about it?

 

Thank you for your help

[Luke 38823]

Hi, we haven't yet implemented any tone mapping for hdr to sdr transcoding. It's planned for the future. Thanks.

[ZiemaF 0]

Thank you for the information.

Do you already have a deadline or are you planning tests?

I will gladly take part in it.

Here I found a solution to the problem https://stevens.li/guides/video/converting-hdr-to-sdr-with-ffmpeg/

Theoretically, my Intel i5-8600k should be able to handle hardware conversion of hdr (10bit) to sdr (8bit)

[Jdiesel 1242]

 

Thank you for the information.

Do you already have a deadline or are you planning tests?

I will gladly take part in it.

Here I found a solution to the problem https://stevens.li/guides/video/converting-hdr-to-sdr-with-ffmpeg/

Theoretically, my Intel i5-8600k should be able to handle hardware conversion of hdr (10bit) to sdr (8bit)

Are you sure about that? Did you catch the last paragraph of that article.

 

"The tone-mapping algorithm place 100% load on a single CPU core. Null output of our tone-mapping setup results in an average playback speed of about 4.3 frames per second on an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU running at 3.8 GHz."

 

Zscale is single threaded, even a 1800x can only manage 4.3 frames per second which is nowhere near the minimum of 24 frames per second for real-time transcoding. ffmpeg will need to introduce a more efficient way of doing this, preferably hardware accelerated, before this is feasible.