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Youtube no longer in HDR
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well, it has the HDR tag on the setting button AND it IS playing 4K/HDR on the screen
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Yeah some user's browser still say that but it's not really HDR. If the stats for nerds say bt709. That means it's SDR. bt2020 and it's HDR. Currently my chrome show only 4k without HDR tag. And it's bt709 not bt2020 like it was when it's working
One thing I noticed on this video:
If I select 4K & HDR, it uses vp09 + bt709.
If I select 8K & HDR, it uses av01 + smpte2084 / bt2020
This happens on other videos as well, where the color changes on 8K but not all 4K HDR videos.
**EDIT** Fixed it by going to youtube.com/testtube and selecting 'Always prefer AV1' on Chrome.
If I select 4K & HDR, it uses vp09 + bt709.
If I select 8K & HDR, it uses av01 + smpte2084 / bt2020
This happens on other videos as well, where the color changes on 8K but not all 4K HDR videos.
**EDIT** Fixed it by going to youtube.com/testtube and selecting 'Always prefer AV1' on Chrome.
This is in response to the people above discussing whether or not HDR even works in Chrome. For some users, if they don't select the appropriate AV1 option, they won't see HDR content there either, even if they have the option in the video dropdown.
@Rodney_Rooster now that is interesting. Since for 4k 60 on chrome HDR is disabled on vp9 . Are you using it with the normal user agent?
On @Rodney_Rooster 's post. It shows that it's running on his chrome with VP9. So it's weird I think..
Been trying some videos via Chrome and HDR and notice that once HDR brightness kicks in the display dims. Is there a reason for this? Doesn't happen on my iPad Pro
just got my 16.2 M1Max today and also got the Youtube HDR play going in and out with Chrome browser and not at all with Safari.
So I did this and it fixed it
select Always prefer AV1
and now in Chrome, HDR videos will play in glorious HDR
this is the HDR video
So I did this and it fixed it
select Always prefer AV1
and now in Chrome, HDR videos will play in glorious HDR
this is the HDR video
Yes but it won't be hw accelerated. It will increase power usage since it's using software decoding and it will add the cpu usage. Also it might drop more frames.
That's why knowing that I disabled AV1 and just use VP9. I'm fine with videos not having 8k option (since YouTube is moving 8k to AV1) as long as I'm sure that the video I'm watching can be 4k 60fps HDR with hw acceleration.
Well the HDR part is disabled right now by YouTube. Assuming it's because of the crashing etc . But again people has said that it works if you change your user agent to chrome on windows. So yeah that is the better way I think since it keeps vp9 hw acceleration with HDR (as a current workaround)
maybe M1Max with Monterey, as my Mac Pro with Monterey still works for YT HDR Play in Safari.
But vp9 is always hw accelerated. So it doesn't matter. What matters is using AV1 only when you're on ac power. I think safari only enables or disables vp9
Any response from Apple getting YouTube HDR to work on MBP m1max using browsers?
I have the same issue, Safari was playing HDR few days back,but not anymore.HDR works on chrome but it doesn't get the peak brightness like safari.
Can someone help me fix this issue, urgent help required!
Interesting. I played multiple HDR videos in safari when it was available in the beginning of november before Google disabled it. Today I tried it in Chrome and my MBP 16 have rebooted on the first video I watched.
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