[willemd]

I think 90% of DSPlayer users only use it because it offers HDR in Windows. Many participants in this forum thread are power users who care about finetuning upscaling et cetera, but for most regular users, the default Kodi video is good enough - except for the fact that it won't do HDR in Windows.

That's also the case for me. I downloaded acquired several HDR10 mkv files that won't run properly in Kodi 17 or 18 because it won't do HDR passthrough. DSPlayer does this splendidly.
(Since I can't rip my 4K Blurays anyway, I'm slowly moving away from Kodi, and I've been using my dedicated 4K Bluray player more and more. I'm unhappy about it, but at least it works.)

Unfortunately, no HDR in Kodi means that Windows users can't really use full Netflix capabililty that Kodi 18 has, since that's probably the best legal HDR video source at the moment. And I think that's really against the team's ambition to disconnect the Kodi image from illegal downloads and streams. Maybe in the next version. I love Kodi and legal use of the latest tech would be awesome. But please don't read this as complaining or demanding, because I'm pretty happy with Kodi in general, and I know it's a lot of hard, unpaid work for the devs. It's just a bit of daydreaming.


Does anyone know whether the Kodi team intend to implement HDR passthrough for Windows in v19?