How to correctly enabled HDR for local recording?

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BlockAboots

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What's the correct settings to set to enable HDR recording in OBS?, are you supposed to change the Colour Space and Video Format in BOTH the main settings menu and settings for the capture card??

I have the AVerMedia 4K Gamer capture card, in the Video Capture Card settings i set the following...

Video Format = P101
Colour Space = Rec. 2100 (PQ)

And then in the main settings page under advance I set....

Colour Format = P010 (10 Bit, 4:2:0, 2 Planes)
Colour Space = Rec. 2100 (PQ)

But if I set both sets of these settings listed above (for the capture card and the main OBS settings) then colours in the preview window for the game be captured become way too red and super over saturated. If I just change the Colour Format and Colour Space option in the advanced tab under the main OSB settings menu and leave the Capture card settings at their default value then the picture looks correct but I'm not sure I'd be actually recording in HDR as I haven't set the options for my capture card to use P010 and Rec. 2100????
 
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koala

Active Member
The suggested option set for HDR can be found in the release notes of OBS 28.0.0. If you didn't find any discussion or guides for HDR with OBS beyond that, you might try this and tell about your findings here, so others can profit from your experience. Also make sure you're running OBS 29, there was a fix for capture card color spaces, and make sure your Windows actually runs with HDR.

Keep in mind, this is not only a very new feature but also a very small set of people using this feature. Not only with OBS, but also with Windows - I, for example, have a HDR capable monitor, but only because it was along its featureset, but I'm not actually using HDR on Windows, because I don't have any HDR content. And since the Windows desktop and everything else SDR looks washed and inferior on a HDR activated monitor, I don't even have it activated in Windows. According to my research, it's how SDR should look like on HDR, but as long as this stays this way, I will just not use it until the vast majority of standard apps including the Windows desktop render in HDR, which will probably not be the case for the next 5+ years. With some Windows 12, HDR might perhaps become standard, but as long as it is appearing more like a gimmick, it's not worthwhile as default.
 
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Chabbles

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BlockAboots said:
Any ideas, or is this feature too early to be implemented correctly?
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Hey did you ever get it to work without the over saturated look ?. If i select 2100 (HLG) it looks much better, but the colors are still stronger than the source and it doesn't quite look right.
 
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