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daftykinsbecause of HDR mode00:04
daftykins4K is utter rubbish tbh in new TVs, can't see the difference over 1080p easily... but HDR is a huuuuge change00:04
penguin424k on my new monitor is nice, but so are the extra 4 inches00:05
daftykinsyeah that's comp usage, i'm really talking about video content her as per a TV00:05
penguin42daftykins: I don't see why HDR is giving that change - I'd expected more subtle gradations, not such a big overall difference00:05
* penguin42 thinks he needs some experimental drivers to drive his at HDR00:11
ali1234HDR essentially separates the colour of an object from how bright it is00:49
ali1234without HDR the only way to make something "lighter" is to make it more white, hence the washed out colours in the first image00:49
penguin42hmm, ok, maybe I'm missing something about what HDR is - I just thought it was a higher bit depth - is it something else?00:51
ali1234it is00:51
ali1234just a higher bit depth00:52
penguin42so why does that change how you make it more white?00:52
ali1234because you can literally have values greater than "255, 255, 255"00:52
penguin42but aren't your bits getting added at the bottom, not the top?  So that your normal full range is 1023,1023,1023 and your HDR is giving you the subtelty for the range?00:53
ali1234no, that's the point :)00:53
penguin42oh...00:54
ali1234ultimately the actual "white" level is determined after you render everything00:54
ali1234ie what value gets mapped to 255, 255, 255 on your monitor00:55
ali1234and what value is 0,0,000:55
ali1234the thing is, you can choose them after rendering00:55
penguin42oh, hmm that's not how I'd imagined it00:56
ali1234you can do this with 8 bit per channel but then you lose colour depth in the process00:59
penguin42yes, I guess that is easier to take existing code; I'd assumed I'd be seeing 10bpp pixmaps01:00
ali1234well you would be, but your monitor probably can't display them :)01:00
penguin42yes it can01:00
penguin42well, it apparently can; the advert says it can do 2^30 colours01:00
penguin42but perhaps that's just via this HDR mech01:01
ali1234well some monitors can01:01
ali1234but even so, white is still white01:02
ali1234because monitors are backlit01:02
penguin42(nod, having turned my brightness down to 30%)01:02
ali1234i believe HDR uses floats anyway :)01:03
penguin42https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwmSzPdVnY01:04
penguin42ali1234: Down the monitor?01:04
ali1234no, in the internal render buffers01:04
ali1234the final step is to map that into the monitor colour space somehow - and maybe add a bloom effect on things that are too bright for the monitor to directly display01:05
penguin42yeh ok01:05
penguin42I need to fiddle with cabling to get the display onto the DP rather than the HDMI anyway I think before we can think about that, but I've not quite figured out where it will show up if the monitor can do it01:10
ali1234probably nowhere - i don't think xorg supports more than 32 bpp01:10
ali1234no idea about wayland01:11
penguin42ali1234: Well it's not even in the edid data that I can see01:11
penguin42ali1234: Although this is plugged in via the HDMI at the moment so maybe that will change01:11
penguin42(The monitor has one uDP, one full DP, and 2 HDMI, so juggling them is interesting)01:13
daftykin1problem with the basic mode in use in my pics is HDR10 is defined once at the beginning of setting the mode, whereas Dolby Vision is a constantly running variant01:27
daftykin1one of the kodi fork devs was working on splitting the metadata in Dolby Vision over the last few days, seemed interesting01:27
=== daftykin1 is now known as daftykins
penguin42ali1234: ediddecode on this monitor plugged into DP shows '10 bits per primary color channel'16:32
ali1234cool16:32
ali1234but can you get Xorg to output that?16:33
penguin42ali1234: Not that I know of, I'm told there are some Mesa patches that might do it - but I don't understand what happens given that I have a 2nd monitor connected that is only 8bpp - I'm asusming it'll go to lowest depth16:34
ali1234I would expect the video card to drop the extra bits for the other monitors - if the driver supports it at all that is19:22
penguin42I'd expect it to only offer a depth supported by all devices19:35
diddledana monitor can advertise 10bit support all it likes. that doesn't mean the panel is any more capable in displaying those extra bits19:38
penguin42diddledan: The advertised spec claims it can19:39
zmoylan-pi...advertised...19:44
penguin42well, it seems to meet the other advertised features19:46
brobostigonevening boys and girls.20:05
penguin42hey brobostigon20:06
zmoylan-piyou're late :-P20:08
Maefshi20:12
Maefshow are you?20:13
diddledan12 hours late20:14
brobostigonhey penguin4220:18
* brobostigon has spent most of the day with family,20:18
zmoylan-pipffffft, what have they ever done for you? :-P20:19
brobostigonwell, quite a few things.20:19
zmoylan-pithe aquaduct? :-D20:20
brobostigonsounds more like the romans, :). lolz.20:20

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