Support HDR screens on macOS/iOS

See #17383 (closed) and #17692 (closed)

The previous work was reverted for 3.0, because of the issues mentionned in #17383 (closed) and also partly in #17692 (closed).

And improved with #17763 (closed) but not enough was done

So creating a new ticket for this for P3 displays

added Component::Video: macOS / iOS / tvOS / visionOS Platform::appleOS Severity::normal Type::feature Version::master git labels

changed milestone to %4.0

See 74ea8d15 , 39d9311e and e818a9b1

I've noticed videos played in VLC (3.0.6 and latest build) are very over-saturated on my MBP 2016 compared to other players. Is this just because of P3 or something else?

QuickTime: https://ibb.co/1Rc9RJW

IINA: https://ibb.co/MNQs84r

VLC: https://ibb.co/KWFs5TL

This should be done properly with a metal based video output.

mentioned in issue #17383 (closed)

marked this issue as related to #18088

unassigned @MigrationBot

assigned to @ePirat

removed Severity::normal label

marked VLCKit#495 (closed) as a duplicate of this issue

marked this issue as related to VLCKit#495 (closed)

mentioned in issue VLCKit#278

Did I got this wrong: The VLC website states that 3.x supports HDR but in fact it does not on macOS until 4.x release? If so, can the website please be updated?

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html

There is also a post on Reddit, users asking themself it is a bug or not: https://www.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/qhl3qa/how_to_play_10_bit_mkv_h265_file_in_hdr_on_2021/

VLC 3 plays HDR content tone-mapped to SDR. Both 3.x and 4.x for macOS currently do not support "native" HDR output on HDR screens.

Too bad the website advertises VLC 3 supports HDR when it does not and what a bummer VLC 4.x will not support HDR, too.

I tested on a Macbook M1 Pro and a HDR video actually looks like crap in VLC compared to playing the same with a HDR video player like Infuse.

I am not saying 4.x will not, it just does not at the current state of development.

Any news on that?

marked #27693 (closed) as a duplicate of this issue

marked this issue as related to #27693 (closed)

assigned to @umxprime and unassigned @ePirat

marked vlc-ios#1407 (closed) as a duplicate of this issue

marked this issue as related to vlc-ios#1407 (closed)