Has anyone had any luck with using VLC with HDR videos on Fedora 43 + KDE Plasma? I’m running the latest version from rpmfusion (3.0.22), and it looks like the settings recommended elsewhere online (Tools → Preferences → Show “All” settings → Video → Output modules → OpenGL, then options for tone mapping are not available. Potentially something to do with libplacebo not being enabled on this build. One user seems to have sorted this on Ubuntu by installing VLC from Snap, but this isn’t an option I’d like to try unless all else fails.
I’m running NVIDIA proprietary drivers 580.119.02 with a 5090.
Video seems to display HDR content correctly when playing using Dragon Player (nice deep blacks, improved vibrancy). Using Dragon Player is fine, but I’m curious to see if/what I’m missing when using VLC.
Possibly some plugins or codecs?
I am using Workstation with gnome and have these packages installed for VLC
dnf list --installed vlc*
Installed packages
vlc.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-cli.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-gui-qt.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-gui-skins2.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-libs.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugin-ffmpeg.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugin-gnome.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugin-kde.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugin-lua.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugin-notify.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugin-pipewire.x86_64 3-6.fc43 fedora
vlc-plugin-pulseaudio.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugin-visualization.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugins-base.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugins-extra.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
vlc-plugins-freeworld.x86_64 3.0.22-1.fc43 rpmfusion-free-updates
vlc-plugins-video-out.x86_64 1:3.0.22-1.fc43 updates
Note that I have no HDR videos to test performance.
I also have this package installed for codecs
$ dnf list --installed libavco*
Installed packages
libavcodec-freeworld.x86_64 7.1.2-7.fc43 rpmfusion-free
Hmm, I have all those installed, along with the additional plugins covered by vlc-plugins-all. I tried vlc-devel to no avail either. I’ll likely ask over on the VLC forum too. Thanks though, @computersavvy
Installing VLC using Snap solved this issue. For now it appears both the Fedora and Flatpak versions of VLC do not have HDR support (tone mapping through libplacebo?) enabled. I’ve tried to raise this on the VideoLAN forum but I couldn’t create an account because I was flagged as a bot. I’ll see if I can raise an issue elsewhere.
OpenGL settings in the Snap version:
OpenGL settings in the Fedora dnf and Flatpak versions:
