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MediaCodec: x265 colors washed out with Google TV (SDR/HDR issue)

Description

When playing specific x265 file with HDR either one of this things happens depending which HW acceleration mode i use disabled: everything is fine except playback is laggy, clearly device cant decode it automatic: playback is okay but colors are washed out: like netflix logo is orange instead of read accelerated_Decoding: situation like on the screenshot full decoding: the same as automatic in the attachment you can find log from VLC/logs from android debugger What made me thinking is that VLC for some reason thinks this is 4k video

Expected behavior

properly decode the video so it is displayed without any problems

Actual behavior

Steps to reproduce

Screenshot / video

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Context

App version

vlc for android 3.4.3

Android version

10

Device model

Chromecast with Google TV

App mode

Smartphone

TV Chromecast with google TV it is connected to phillips pico pix max log.txt Autolog.txt

Edited by Thomas Guillem
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