YouTube HDR... finally

[Kuschelmonschter]

YouTube HDR content is finally available!

You will find a playlist here. However, these clips will be played as SDR on Sonys for now.

With youtube-dl you can find vp9.2 encodings for those clips:

330          webm       256x144    144p60  156k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 2.38MiB
331          webm       426x240    240p60  256k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 3.87MiB
332          webm       640x360    360p60  485k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 7.35MiB
333          webm       854x480    480p60  909k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 13.83MiB
334          webm       1280x720   720p60 1991k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 28.18MiB
335          webm       1920x1080  1080p60 3201k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 49.70MiB
336          webm       2560x1440  1440p60 11166k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 170.23MiB
337          webm       3840x2160  2160p60 20122k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 335.45MiB

Those are webm however which the native Video app won't play.

We will see whether we will get support for it soon, even for the early 2016 models with the old MediaTek SoC from last year. At least Sony promised that back at CES:

Spoiler

YouTube will also start streaming in HDR quality later this year, using a new VP9-Profile 2 codec that brings HDR support to Google’s VP9 video format. Sony’s Motoi Kawamura, Head of TV Product Planning for Sony Europe, confirmed to FlatpanelsHD that the 2016 models will support VP9-Profile 2 and be capable of streaming YouTube in HDR. We saw a demo at CES and it looked very good.

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[Peter_S.]

Hi Kuschelmonschter,

Thanks a lot for the news.

Apologies that this initial post had been removed by the automatic spam filter.

I've restored it now from spam quarantine.

Cheers

Peter

[Kuschelmonschter]

Thanks for that! It was probably considered a double-posting. The only purpose is to have some things discussed with the British community also.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info.

"However, these clips will be played as SDR on Sonys for now."

Upon switching HDR on manually, it seems to playback in HDR - or is it my eyes playing tricks on me?

[Kuschelmonschter]

You mean the TV profile? Or the respective stream in YouTube? Can you actually chose the HDR stream? Does the HDR profile activate for any source? I will also have to investigate deeper in the evening.

Just switching to the respective HDR profile on TV won't give you the YouTube HDR stream I suppose.

[Anonymous]

No, HDR does not activate automatically - but the option enables itself in the Picture Mode - So its detecting HDR at some point, as if there is no HDR detected - the HDR Profile in Picture Mode is not there.  So manually changing the profile to HDR seems to work.

[Kuschelmonschter]

Which TV do you use for testing?

[Anonymous]

KD-55XD8577 is my model.  So still on Android 5.1.

[Kuschelmonschter]

OK, so a model from the spring 2016 line-up with last year's MT5890 chipset. I will post my findings in the evening when I get back home.

[Anonymous]

Correct