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As the title describes, I cannot play/ see HDR YouTube videos - the option is not available any more from the resolution selection.
With previous Edge (prior to 15/01/2020) I could and I could also choose a higher resolution from my screen's native one.
I would like to point out also, that neither Chrome and Firefox provide such option - I really cannot understand why but my issue here is with Edge.
Yes, my screen is HDR capable.
I would highly appreciate any help into solving this matter.
Thank you in advance!
Managing media playback issues and settings in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10
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I hope they resolve the issues with YT HDR ASAP and not take "a good few years..." and they know better with **HDR Gaming (**Xbox Series X...etc,) just around the corner...?
yes chrome normal can display 'HDR' BUT NOT IN 4K! as you see below only BETA VERSION 'CROME' AND EDGE do it, i dont use any other browser
I believe the figure you see beside viewport shows the text-scaling amount that windows/tv/handset has applied. You are still seeing 3840x2160 pixels of video.
I cannot say for sure as I am not in front of your monitor: it seems that the range of brightness/peaks (white) is disregarding the HDR/PQ curves supplied by the source material, an error with windows/browser and not your ROG display.
If skies, spotlights, sun reflections and water do not look natural/realistic to you, this will be a good indicator of whether the reproduction of video/HDR info is succesful.
i cant follow what you say. just note what i showed is chrome normal version only up to 1080p but does use HDR in yt videos
2 chrome BETA version supports 4k HDR -8k videos too, as does Microsoft edge
Not a problem. If you do have any specific questions about what I stated, feel free to follow-up.
NB phil; if you CTRL +/- when on youtube with the "stats for nerds" pop-up, you will see the viewport adjusting on the fly (UI and text changing), with the video resolution remaining the same. For example, I use 150% scaling on Windows on 4k screen, so my viewport shows 2560x1440p * 1.50 which equals 3840x2160p.
Whilst HDR maybe supported (using chrome://flags, edge://flags or in Chrome BETA), any use of these on my end has caused the HDR image to be reproduced poorly (in that the video is blown out).