With the help of another user we managed to pass the correct hdr dynamic range in kodi pc app with mpc hc in gpu acceleration mode with yuv. Hook to 2 sony hdr tvs we managed to take test samples of hdr media and get it to match the uhd samsung and philipps uhd 4k players with color and increased dynamic range. Once we do some more testing and work out the bugs I will release these files so you can add the hdr on.exe hdr off.exe to activate and deactivate hdr on all your uhd movies and documentaries. Tests have been done on all oled 10bit hdr demos from jazz to walk thru colors to chess demo in hdr mode. Tesrs have been done with rx470 and and kaby lake gpu. You do not need sgx compatible hardware to play or pass thru hdr. Tests have been done with and without hdr meta triggers to confirm proper dynamic range of the source files. Code took approx 30 hrs and added some xml code to show these items in your kodi app. I own all the orginal uhd media in these tests. Me and the beta tester are trying to see if 1080p hdr trigging is possible with 10bit color. The upsample of 1080p is wonderful on bluray and uhd is great. But people want hdr pc with a good collection of movies is going to cost huge amounts of hard drive space. We have managed to inject hdr meta data into source material with hdr triggering. If you run nvidia mpc hc with madvr will trigger hdr with windows 10 creator update. Amd is not compatible with mad vr and mashi has pending bug reports on black screen in hardeare acceleration in hevc 10bit main files. So ive offered hdr via custom presenter filter with directx mode. Testing was done not on rgb 444 rgb 422 but YCbCr422 420 modes.
If you go 444 pc will loose sinc with hd 7.1 audio . And glitching will happen in video. 422 420 has 0 dropped frames and perfect dtshd ma and truhd playback. Still need more testing on audio. The hdr is a perfect match. Nvidiavsheild kodi has been tested to work with hdr triggering but pc has not. The internal kodi app does not support gpu hardware acceleration and will lag on playback of hevc main 10 hdr media. Another thing is a pure hdr file will look dull and washed out.
Testing shows tv adds a set contrast gamma and saturation level to pump up the picture to give you those awsome blacks and bright contrast like looking in the sun. Tested nasa hdr demo and the sun was super bright and the reds were wow but the blscks were pure black.
Anyway stay tooned and check back in the next 2 weeks. The xml code is not hard to add but you will require mpc hc 64bit and lav filters with a gpu compatible of playing hevc main 10. Amd rx 4 5 series cards do this. Kaby lake has onboard hevc support. Not sure if core i7 can keep up on uhd 10bit file. The hdr is not going to add to processing power.
If you want to see more you can head over to redfox forums and check out hi def software section. Screenshots posted there.
My htpc was setup for bluray and lpcm to pass 7.1 to denon smp to full size speakers. Now im working on direct uhd sound to pc to eq in cubase and send out to my livingroom via lpcm thru hdmi. Its advanced stuff and one day Ill teach you guys on my youtube channel. Google my name if you want to see my test equipment.
I am doing this mainly to help my friend but in turn you guys get the benifits. As for me once I release this Im going to stick with uhd hardware player and sound being controled via pc. There are audio devices that cost 1000 bucks to add room correction and eq to sound. Im going to run locm uhd to pc to my studio 8 channel card and run it thru eq with sound meters and 7.1 test tones in my living room to set levels on each speaker at ref. Volume. My samsung uhd decodes dtshd master and truhd and passes it over hdmi. Using lpcm hdmi decoder I beeakout the 8 audio tracks, eq them the set freq response according to my room and send the 8 channels out to the amp.
If you own hdmi amp this is pointless. If you want to stack amps and run stereo smp pairs then this is for you. Most smps have room correction built in. Im breaking out of the confined smp and unleashing a system to run as much power and if I need dtsx atamos ill look at a pre amp.
I run 7 75w channels and 400w sub. Very clear powerful system. Run all refrence klipsch speakers and sony 65 inch xbr hdr tv. My pc is 8 years old so uhd is easily possible on 8 year old pc! And 3 x4 965 processor with 8gig of ram . Pci e is shared 8 gig yo rx470 video card and my winderful revi 110 gig pcie 4x ssd. This thing has 500 mb a sec read and write! Crazy. Win 10 is on kingston ssd. Have 8 terr bytes of internal hhd and 8 external backup . 1 to 1 system have 4t cloud server as well. Id say about 15thos eorth of stuff in my htpc system. I might go uhd 4k but in 1080p to get more on pc. Honestly uhd tests at 1080p from 6 feet back its hard to tell. Put 1080p in hevc thr files are 6 8 gig. Older lcd tvs from 2014 on can have hdr effect added to push then panels light levels up or close to hdr levels. Hdr on exe will work on older panels . The only downside is bt2020 color. If you own 4k tv that can do bt2020 and hanfle 10bit (a must or you will see color banding) then you might want yo watch this project close.
Got to go........check back ftoday or latest next week.
If you go 444 pc will loose sinc with hd 7.1 audio . And glitching will happen in video. 422 420 has 0 dropped frames and perfect dtshd ma and truhd playback. Still need more testing on audio. The hdr is a perfect match. Nvidiavsheild kodi has been tested to work with hdr triggering but pc has not. The internal kodi app does not support gpu hardware acceleration and will lag on playback of hevc main 10 hdr media. Another thing is a pure hdr file will look dull and washed out.
Testing shows tv adds a set contrast gamma and saturation level to pump up the picture to give you those awsome blacks and bright contrast like looking in the sun. Tested nasa hdr demo and the sun was super bright and the reds were wow but the blscks were pure black.
Anyway stay tooned and check back in the next 2 weeks. The xml code is not hard to add but you will require mpc hc 64bit and lav filters with a gpu compatible of playing hevc main 10. Amd rx 4 5 series cards do this. Kaby lake has onboard hevc support. Not sure if core i7 can keep up on uhd 10bit file. The hdr is not going to add to processing power.
If you want to see more you can head over to redfox forums and check out hi def software section. Screenshots posted there.
My htpc was setup for bluray and lpcm to pass 7.1 to denon smp to full size speakers. Now im working on direct uhd sound to pc to eq in cubase and send out to my livingroom via lpcm thru hdmi. Its advanced stuff and one day Ill teach you guys on my youtube channel. Google my name if you want to see my test equipment.
I am doing this mainly to help my friend but in turn you guys get the benifits. As for me once I release this Im going to stick with uhd hardware player and sound being controled via pc. There are audio devices that cost 1000 bucks to add room correction and eq to sound. Im going to run locm uhd to pc to my studio 8 channel card and run it thru eq with sound meters and 7.1 test tones in my living room to set levels on each speaker at ref. Volume. My samsung uhd decodes dtshd master and truhd and passes it over hdmi. Using lpcm hdmi decoder I beeakout the 8 audio tracks, eq them the set freq response according to my room and send the 8 channels out to the amp.
If you own hdmi amp this is pointless. If you want to stack amps and run stereo smp pairs then this is for you. Most smps have room correction built in. Im breaking out of the confined smp and unleashing a system to run as much power and if I need dtsx atamos ill look at a pre amp.
I run 7 75w channels and 400w sub. Very clear powerful system. Run all refrence klipsch speakers and sony 65 inch xbr hdr tv. My pc is 8 years old so uhd is easily possible on 8 year old pc! And 3 x4 965 processor with 8gig of ram . Pci e is shared 8 gig yo rx470 video card and my winderful revi 110 gig pcie 4x ssd. This thing has 500 mb a sec read and write! Crazy. Win 10 is on kingston ssd. Have 8 terr bytes of internal hhd and 8 external backup . 1 to 1 system have 4t cloud server as well. Id say about 15thos eorth of stuff in my htpc system. I might go uhd 4k but in 1080p to get more on pc. Honestly uhd tests at 1080p from 6 feet back its hard to tell. Put 1080p in hevc thr files are 6 8 gig. Older lcd tvs from 2014 on can have hdr effect added to push then panels light levels up or close to hdr levels. Hdr on exe will work on older panels . The only downside is bt2020 color. If you own 4k tv that can do bt2020 and hanfle 10bit (a must or you will see color banding) then you might want yo watch this project close.
Got to go........check back ftoday or latest next week.
