Does your TV support HDR and BT.2020?
If not that's expected as the RPi can't tonemap HDR videos to SDR which vlc on your laptop probably does.
so long,
Hias
Yes. The TV is Philips 4K Android TV and with Kodi installed on it the same file plays just fine. Only the Rpi4 has problem.
Kodi has no support for tonemapping and is unlikely to gain that capability anytime soon. Most hardware Kodi currently runs on either lacks the specialist image manipulation capabilities to do on-the-fly tonemapping, or the hardware can do it, but support hasn't been implemented in the Linux kernel and drivers yet; and hence there's no need (and not much point) trying to support it right now.
In simplistic terms: Kodi simply outputs video with an appropriate resolution, colour depth, colour-space, and HDR flagging as detected from the media being played and within the constraints of what the hardware (HTPC) can output. As not all hardware supports all combinations (read from the HDMI EDID data) Kodi will sometimes output in a higher bit-depth or nearest colour-space from possible output formats. It's then up to the display device (Monitor/TV/Beamer) to figure out how to display that combination.
Today I found out that my Rpi4 can play 4k hdr10 file, but with washed-out colors... while my Huavei laptop, Ryzen 5 3500u, running Kubuntu, can play the same file just perfect (with vlc and Kodi), with HW acceleration and very nice colors? Why is that? why Rpi4 can not do it?
Hello everybody,
This is my first post here and I would like to thank you for the good software.
I am using Libreelec for some time, first with RPi2, now with Odroid C2.
WIth the Odroid and Libreelec 8.0.2 I noticed a missing option in settings - "increase volume on center chanell when downmix", it is just not there.
With RPI2 the function was there and working.
Is it a Odroid build thing or it is something else, and can I get the option back. I live in a flat and it is important for me.
Thanks again and good day.
