(2022-01-12, 17:05)jdunbar8 Wrote: Just for my understanding: isn't it actually less graphic driver dependent and demanding to have the NAS just pass the video / HDR signal through to the AVR/TV via HDMI?
If you think twice about that question, I guess it's somewhat clear that everything video related is related to the graphics card, no?
At least in a bit. As said, I'm not too sure about the current situation of HDR support under Linux. But I'm at least 75% sure that it's graphics related. The rest might also be related to the kernel in use. You WILL need some kind of GPU to output anything. Even on the current Intel devices which do not have a dedicated graphics card, some GPU is build in.
So if your NAS has a HDMI out, it also will have some kind of GPU. Otherwise a HDMI output doesn't make much sense
. If that GPU doesn't support HDR or if the driver in use which QNAP provides doesn't support it, your NAS won't be able to push those signals to the connected devices.
I highly guess you have think different from the audio-passthrough option, where Kodi doesn't touch the audio at all and pushes that to the AVR. That said....there are still devices out there which do have a HDMI out, but can't do HD-audio (Raspberry Pi for example).
Maybe @
lrusak is able to tell more about the current HDR state on Linux in general. But as said. Even if it is supported on some specific hardware, that doesn't mean QNAP will ever support it. QNAPs goals are to build NASs. The video option is just a niche-thing. I, personally, would never place a NAS next to my amp and use it as a daily driver for playing videos. But that's your decision