Encoding HDR
Encoding HDR
Alright this may be a dumb question but , I going to take a risk and ask it anyway.
It's impossible to read a review of 4K TV's these days without also reading about HDR and all the different flavour variants thereof ( HDR10, 10+, HLG etc ). If I were to encode a 4K Bluray which included these details ( is that the right way of putting it ? ) would they be included in the mkv file ??
It's impossible to read a review of 4K TV's these days without also reading about HDR and all the different flavour variants thereof ( HDR10, 10+, HLG etc ). If I were to encode a 4K Bluray which included these details ( is that the right way of putting it ? ) would they be included in the mkv file ??
Re: Encoding HDR
Is Handbrake handling of greater than 8 bits on the horizon or a long way off? Now that ripping of 4K Blu-ray discs is possible, it will become a much more requested feature!
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It's at least some way off, I'd say. No idea how long though, if I'm being honest.
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Hello there, just for clarifying the situation!
I am trying to compress (in mp4 or mkv container) a 4K video with HDR10 h.265 profile standard.
Is HandBrake able to do that?
I tested the simple h.265 profile with INFUSE software on iOS and it is not able to play it.
VLC on PC or Mac has no issue.
Will I have to use "h.265 10bit" video settings in order to maintain the HDR10 profile?
Thanks!
Re: Encoding HDR
You can't maintain HDR with HandBrake.
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Yes, no one has done the work to support it.
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Yes, many of our filters don't support working on HDR, so everything is converted to standard dynamic range 8-bit 4:2:0 internally -- there is no way to recover the lost information then.
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Ok,
I finished my test!
I bought an original blue-ray 4k HDR. I transcoded it with h.265 10bit profile 16k mbps.
Original mkv was 52GB and after HandBrake it's 11GB mp4.
The result is great, fully compatible with INFUSE & PLEX apps & VLC (Win10, Mac, Ubuntu, iOS, tvOS & Android).
Also macOS quick time can play it!
Really hope that HDR will be supported soon!
I finished my test!
I bought an original blue-ray 4k HDR. I transcoded it with h.265 10bit profile 16k mbps.
Original mkv was 52GB and after HandBrake it's 11GB mp4.
The result is great, fully compatible with INFUSE & PLEX apps & VLC (Win10, Mac, Ubuntu, iOS, tvOS & Android).
Also macOS quick time can play it!
Really hope that HDR will be supported soon!
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Hello there,
anyone knows if now possible to transcode mkv to mp4 keeping HDR feature?
Thanks, Filippo
anyone knows if now possible to transcode mkv to mp4 keeping HDR feature?
Thanks, Filippo
Re: Encoding HDR
You might find the answer in this thread already.
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I can find the answer, but 6 months old!
So is there any updates?! This is what I mean!
So is there any updates?! This is what I mean!
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Hello there,
Happy New Year first of all!
I tested on a MacBook Pro 15 - 2018 (8gen CPU) an encoding of MKV 4K HDR10 using h265 10-bit.
This is the result:
https://i.postimg.cc/CKtByZZL/01.png
https://i.postimg.cc/HLjcP0kh/02.png
This is the last version of HandBrake!
So finally HDR support has been added in this update?!
Happy New Year first of all!
I tested on a MacBook Pro 15 - 2018 (8gen CPU) an encoding of MKV 4K HDR10 using h265 10-bit.
This is the result:
https://i.postimg.cc/CKtByZZL/01.png
https://i.postimg.cc/HLjcP0kh/02.png
This is the last version of HandBrake!
So finally HDR support has been added in this update?!
Re: Encoding HDR
Nope, there is no HDR support. HandBrake is still an 8bit pipeline. There are small improvements encoding to 10bit, but with the down-conversion, there are still significant losses.
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I also tried with my MacBook Pro 2017 (7 gen CPU) & I have the same good situation!
I can understand what you mean, but also PLEX server reports that the files are correctly in HDR10 profile.
How could it possible?!
I can understand what you mean, but also PLEX server reports that the files are correctly in HDR10 profile.
How could it possible?!
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Re: Encoding HDR
Your source will be converted to 8 bit for the processing.
It can then be encoded in 10 bit, however you have already lost your 10 bit source.
It can then be encoded in 10 bit, however you have already lost your 10 bit source.
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Sorry, just to understand ...
ATM for x265 10bit sources are dropped to 8bit and finally dithered to 10bits ?
Is there anyway/codec/library to "preserve" HDR info using HandBrake ?
Thanks !
ATM for x265 10bit sources are dropped to 8bit and finally dithered to 10bits ?
Is there anyway/codec/library to "preserve" HDR info using HandBrake ?
Thanks !
Re: Encoding HDR
10->8 bits, yes. HandBrake provides 8-bit data to the chosen encoder. 8-, 10-, and 12-bit encoders are selectable.
HDR support is in planning stages and is not currently implemented.
HDR support is in planning stages and is not currently implemented.