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[REQUEST] Support external players / [BUG] HDR content looks washed out on SDR screens #886

Open VelocityRa opened 1 year ago

VelocityRa commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The problem is that with Kodi's internal player, HDR content looks washed out on SDR screens.

Describe the solution you'd like I have an MPC-HC installation with madVR installed that can tone-map HDR files correctly, so as a workaround, I would like to use that with Seren instead of Kodi's internal player.

Describe alternatives you've considered I've tried this: https://kodi.wiki/view/External_players but the "Play using..." menu doesn't appear for Seren content, only for local files.

Edit: Oh, apparently just putting an entry in playercorefactory.xml makes Seren use that external player by default. That's great, but I will still leave the issue open - it would be nicer if it was optional / only reachable via context menu just like (I assume) vanilla Kodi. Since this is a workaround after all - some of Seren features like auto-next aren't supported this way. There's no need to use this for non-HDR content, for example.

npmstart-pray commented 1 year ago

I support this request: it would save filtering during search.