That uses the experimental of the color management protocol. Now that the protocol is stable, it will be exposed by default. And hopefully we shouldn’t need to install additional software, set environmental variables, or pass command line flags.
Maybe it hasn’t been fully implemented yet but when I play HDR videos in MPV right now it is still not working. But running that command works as expected.
It being merged means If you compile it from source it’ll work, there hasn’t been a release yet, and that release also has to be in your distros repos, so it’ll be bit
I checked out the PR but I’m not sure what this means
It means it can play HDR videos in Wayland environments that support the protocol (Gnome, Plasma) among other color improvements this protocol brings.
Hyprland too
Couldn’t you already do this using the command below? (Under “video”)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#HDR
That uses the experimental of the color management protocol. Now that the protocol is stable, it will be exposed by default. And hopefully we shouldn’t need to install additional software, set environmental variables, or pass command line flags.
Maybe it hasn’t been fully implemented yet but when I play HDR videos in MPV right now it is still not working. But running that command works as expected.
It being merged means If you compile it from source it’ll work, there hasn’t been a release yet, and that release also has to be in your distros repos, so it’ll be bit
Makes sense. Thanks for the info!
So no more dark and dull looking videos?
You still need a HDR-capable screen.
Mmh, okay. So I’ll continue re-downloading videos in non-HDR variants. But good to see it implemented, though.
IIRC MPV can be configured to play HDR video as SDR, and you set the .conf things like quality and standard to what you want.