HDR Question

[guardianali 12]

Have a hopefully quick HDR question I cant find a direct answer to. 

 

I have the option for "Enable HDR tone mapping:" turned on so that on non HDR supported TVs and PC, the colors wont  look washed out. And it works. 

My question is, for black friday, I finally got a HDR 4k tv for the living room. When i play the HDR movies on it, is it showing proper color because of that setting or is it showing the proper color cause it detects a hdr screen?

Do i need to turn it off to show proper HDR on the 4k HDR tv? Or is the server smart enough to know.....??

Edited November 29, 2021 by guardianali

[GrimReaper 4762]

12 minutes ago, guardianali said:

Do i need to turn it off to show proper HDR on the 4k HDR tv? Or is the app smart enough to know.....??

Assuming your TV is reporting HDR support - it'll be DirectPlayed as is, nothing to do from your side. Tonemapping occurs only on transcodes (which might or might not occur due to various reasons). 

Edited November 29, 2021 by GrimReaper
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[guardianali 12]

Gotcha. Ty for the quick reply. 

Anyway to easy tell if the hdr movie is playing directly or being transcoded?

[GrimReaper 4762]

Just now, guardianali said:

Anyway to easy tell if the hdr movie is playing directly or being transcoded?

Stats For Nerds would show you PlayMethod. 

Some TVs also show HDR toast for few secs.

[Luke 42086]

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