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HEVC videos always too dark - andyr - 2024-07-20

Hi - 4k HEVC videos play in JF Media Server, but they are always very dark. This is the case on macos and tvos (via infuse).

JF server log: https://gist.github.com/AndyRubio/86a46c60423cd1153d017ff05c62fae4
ffmpeg log: https://gist.github.com/AndyRubio/56b4d7e4c077c8f852c51ce48a779830

Film name is 'After Hours'.

Can anyone see any obvious issues?

Thanks Smiling-face


RE: HEVC videos always too dark - theguymadmax - 2024-07-20

What are your server specs and transcode settings?


RE: HEVC videos always too dark - andyr - 2024-07-20

Hi Smiling-face

* Transcode settings: only 'Force Transcode Dolby Vision' is checked.

* Are these the server settings?
Performance:
Parallel library scan tasks limit: 0
Parallel image encoding limit: 0

The server itself is: Asustor Drivestor 4 Pro AS3304T 4 Bay NAS, Quad Core 1.4 GHz CPU, 2GB RAM DDR4

Does this help?

(and thank you by the way!)


RE: HEVC videos always too dark - theguymadmax - 2024-07-20

Transcode settings would be in Dashboard->Playback->Transcoding. I think the issue is that you need to enable tonemapping of HDR content to SDR, but Jellyfin doesn't support your ARM processor. So you're out of luck there.


RE: HEVC videos always too dark - andyr - 2024-07-20

Thanks - good to know.