Probably a noob question, but I wonder if someone has experience with that. I am looking to buy a TV and I wonder is it makes sense to buy one with decent HDR capabilities, when my plan is to watch pirated movies from my Linux device via HDMI. Is that technically possible? Is it easy?
If it matters, I am on Fedora silverblue.
I have my Linux PC connect to TV via HDMI and AVR. I just enable HDR in settings then play my movies with MPV. Works perfectly fine.
Only a minor issue with AMD GPUs, I have enabled HDMI 2.1 FRL for my kernel to get full RGB, not sure if that’s possible on Silverblue but it should be enabled by default by Linux kernel 7.4 or something.
If it matters, I am on Fedora silverblue.
It does. HDR isn’t really well supported on xorg-based systems. Fedora has Wayland though, which handles HDR better.
HDMI
This also matters. HDMI 2.1 isn’t supported on amd systems just yet. It doesn’t matter unless you want 144hz at 4k, but it does matter. Linux does a better job of supporting displayport, but tvs don’t usually have displayport inputs.
hell yeah, brother (or sister, or sibling). even if you’re just using public trackers via torrent, films or series utilizing hdr should be available. I would also second MPV like others have said
best way to play back HDR movies, especially Dolby vision, is to dual boot LibreElec, specifically THIS build that is getting DV+FEL to work on intel, amd and nvidia graphics.
within a standard Linux operating system these days you can get easily basic HDR working in MPV or kodi etc, but more advanced formats are poorly supported. that said, a decent modern TV can usually run jellyfin, plex, emby, kodi etc. and play the files directly off your computer via SMB/NFS or a usb disk with reasonable format support. getting full lossless atmos audio and the best HDR support requires specific dedicated players, or the libreelec option above if you are OK dual booting.
This libreelec looks cool and I want to try it, but only nice usb creators for mac and windows, on linux fuck you, figure it out. Use dd or something.
Yes the ARR stack works flawlessly in docker on Linux. Paired with qbittorrent and even public trackers you can watch to your hearts content. It’s easy to find guides in your favorite search engine.
It’s important to use a VPN if you don’t want to get disconnected from your ISP.
I don’t use HDMI though I run jellyfin on the server and as a client on Roku and Xbox over the home WAN. Here’s Jellyfin HDR guide
MPV has excellent HDR support on Linux. I don’t have any HDR displays, but so far it has properly tone mapped every HDR format that I’ve tried.
In this day and age, the question should no longer be “will <x> run on Linux?”, rather “what’s the best method for doing <x> on Linux?”
Because - again, in this day and age - Linux is extremely capable and runs damn near the entire internet.
ARR stack. 1000%. Do this. I can’t believe it’s works this easily.
works on my jellyfin with the two computers in my family with hdr monitors, and the newer tv with hdr. the older one struggles to play hd sdr video but possibly it could still be used as a monitor and have an sbc capable of hd hdr playback actually play the stream.
Donno if fedora has gotten hdr yet, I know arch with KDE has great hdr now. Just gotta use mpv or smth not vlc
