SOLVED: HDR directplay

[Phaedron]

Struggling to find an answer to this one.

I am trying to play 4k HDR content.

When I play a film in Jellyfin Media Player (windows) it shows as direct playing, says the video range is HDR10 but from what I can tell the video is not displaying as HDR. Based on my eyes and what I expect HDR content to look like and using the brightness slider in windows HDR menu for SDR content brightness (which dims or brightens the movie, which I believe means windows is seeing it as SDR).

Looking for guidance on how to get this to display properly. Happy to provide any other details that would help resolve this.

[tmsrxzar]

windows barely supports hdr, play the file directly in mpv (without jellyfin at all) and take a screenshot, play it in jellyfin media player and take a screenshot, open both screenshots for a side by side

[TheDreadPirate]

Give Jellyfin MPV Shim a try. My understanding is that there are some limitations with how JMP renders video that makes displaying actual HDR impossible. But MPV Shim doesn't have those limitations.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim/releases

[Phaedron]

windows barely supports hdr, play the file directly in mpv (without jellyfin at all) and take a screenshot, play it in jellyfin media player and take a screenshot, open both screenshots for a side by side

Thanks for the response. So no good to use windows then. Would I have better luck with Jellyfin player in Linux? As far as I'm aware HDR isn't supported in Linux either.

If I want to play 4k HDR 7.1 bluray rips what is my best client option?

[tmsrxzar]

windows barely supports hdr, play the file directly in mpv (without jellyfin at all) and take a screenshot, play it in jellyfin media player and take a screenshot, open both screenshots for a side by side

Thanks for the response. So no good to use windows then. Would I have better luck with Jellyfin player in Linux? As far as I'm aware HDR isn't supported in Linux either.

If I want to play 4k HDR 7.1 bluray rips what is my best client option?

you are quite right about linux as well, x86* in general

the only devices i know for a fact that will do proper HDR up to HDR10+ is android, with the bonus that most can also do Dolby Vision

i used FireTV Cube for years, it works
i replaced with Zidoo Z9X Pro, it works better but requires a fork to work with jellyfin
CoreELEC can do it but that still requires an android device (amlogic based)

i don't think apple devices work but that's not a fact more of an impression i get, never owned one

[TheDreadPirate]

Looks like we missed each other. Give Jellyfin MPV Shim a try. My understanding is that there are some limitations with how JMP renders video that makes displaying actual HDR impossible. But MPV Shim doesn't have those limitations.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim/releases