I am looking for a way to play HDR content on Linux. From what I understand KDE 6 has experimental support for HDR, but isn’t available on Pop OS 22.04. Apparently Cosmic desktop will support HDR when it’s released, but I don’t know if the experimental version will.

Can anybody help me here? Will I need to change distro?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipMEnglish
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    9 months ago

    My advise would be to use Kodi. Do not run it as an App. Instead start it from tty as that’s the only way it supports HDR.

    I haven’t personally tested this

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Thanks I had no idea that was even an option. I knew framebuffer programs could use HDR, but had no idea Kodi was one of them.

  • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Ignore my first comment kinda missed your question. Seems like gamescope HDR support works with mpv aswell according to this Reddit post

    Sadly only works in tty aswelly some say it only works on amdvlk

    You should try it yourself though, only way to know for sure

    Kodi seems to also support HDR when you run it from the tty according to the Arch Wiki. I have no clue how that translates to pop! OS though

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I tried manjaro Linux on a live USB and it didn’t work. I specifically used manjaro because it’s an easy way to get Nvidia drivers on a live system, yes I know it has issues. I doubt Arch would be any better in terms of HDR support.

      Can you just follow the instructions from this page and change the package from KDE plasma to KDE 6?

      How would you do this? I don’t think that’s actually possible but if you know a way lmk.

        • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I heard that Manjaro has greatly diverged from Arch over the last couple of years. Someone said EOS, which I think stands for Evolution Operating System is closer to Arch now, but I haven’t actually looked into it so idk how accurate that is. Arch takes more work to get set up than Pop does though, just FYI if you’re considering it. It doesn’t come with anything by default, unless you use a script to install.

          You’re talking to someone who used to be an Arch user. It’s nothing actually specific to arch, it’s an initiative by KDE. People link to arch wiki because the wiki is a good source, and also because arch has more up to date packages than pretty much everything else.

          Sorry, I don’t actually know how to do it. I was wondering if you can use the instructions on that page but change the package name to the latest package name. That would definitely install it, but I don’t think it will work. Based on what I read after commenting, Ubuntu LTS doesn’t have the required dependencies, and Pop is based on Ubuntu LTS. It should be available in the next version though.

          Is it actually a different package name? That’s not how these types of things normally work. Either the new version is in the repos or it isn’t. The package name doesn’t container the version number either, it’s just kde-standard. I believe KDE 6 isn’t in the standard Ubuntu repos at all, even for 24.04, which is newer than the one Pop OS is based on. It seems you have to use KDE Neon to get 6 on an Ubuntu based system.