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Old 18th August 2020, 02:35   #43  |  Link
wswartzendruber
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Originally Posted by FranceBB View Post
Since you have the latest version of VLC, can you try to compare its HLG tonemapping to the one done by MPV? It would be interesting to see how they look like and whether the VLC guys actually really improved it compared to years ago.
Here you go; VLC is on the top in each one while MPV is on the bottom: https://imgur.com/a/2JeNJvT

I was blown away by this at first. MPV seems to handle 2020->709 conversion with dramatic superiority along with having much more pleasing gamma. In fact with MPV, I can't even tell it wasn't graded natively in 709.

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