HDR, HDR10, DV Support

1st Official Post

    Hi

    I have LibreElect 9.2 installed on my PC and my RPi4.

    I saw some posts from December, that HDR just landed to Linux.

    Whats the current status of that ?

    Can I enjoy Kodi + HDR's technologies ?

    • Official Post

    LE 9.2 does not and is unlikely to ever support HDR with RPi4 as it's based upon Linux 4.19 which pre-dates all the initial HDR support being merged into the Linux kernel, and because Kodi will move to a modern GBM/V4L2 architecture for most things running Linux as part of LE10 and Kodi v19. There is a considerable amount of ongoing activity to port RPi hardware away from the legacy MMAL decoder to the new GBM/V4L2 pipeline and once this is working people will start poking 10-bit video and HDR. So.. we're not there yet, but it will come.

    Quote from chewitt

    LE 9.2 does not and is unlikely to ever support HDR with RPi4 as it's based upon Linux 4.19 which pre-dates all the initial HDR support being merged into the Linux kernel, and because Kodi will move to a modern GBM/V4L2 architecture for most things running Linux as part of LE10 and Kodi v19. There is a considerable amount of ongoing activity to port RPi hardware away from the legacy MMAL decoder to the new GBM/V4L2 pipeline and once this is working people will start poking 10-bit video and HDR. So.. we're not there yet, but it will come.

    Thanks for this answer. I continue to check this forum specifically for hdr support. Hopefully it comes sooner rather than later.