2018-09-29, 17:43
I've just upgraded the HTPC with a GT 1030 and can finally do 4K HDR. I've obviously switched to DSPlayer and got HDR pass-through working reasonably well
I do notice sometimes that starting playback gives a black screen, closing and reopening Kodi seems to fix this. Also videos stutter a little when starting for the first 1-2 seconds.
As the material i'm playing is pretty HQ to start with, I'm not using most of MadVR. I've got everything set to hardware/DXVA wherever possible to reduce load.
I'm more concerned that this port may not continue and are interested in options. I don't need video processing, just real HDR output. While Kodi 18 handles HDR, its only tone mapping from what I understand which will compress the dynamic range so it looks OK on an SDR display or HDR display in SDR mode.
Obviously the ideal is for Kodi to support native HDR output but as the current scheme is hacky using Nvidia/AMD private API's, I understand why they dont want to support this currently
Any options?
I do notice sometimes that starting playback gives a black screen, closing and reopening Kodi seems to fix this. Also videos stutter a little when starting for the first 1-2 seconds.
As the material i'm playing is pretty HQ to start with, I'm not using most of MadVR. I've got everything set to hardware/DXVA wherever possible to reduce load.
I'm more concerned that this port may not continue and are interested in options. I don't need video processing, just real HDR output. While Kodi 18 handles HDR, its only tone mapping from what I understand which will compress the dynamic range so it looks OK on an SDR display or HDR display in SDR mode.
Obviously the ideal is for Kodi to support native HDR output but as the current scheme is hacky using Nvidia/AMD private API's, I understand why they dont want to support this currently
Any options?