I am looking for a way to play HDR content on Linux. From what I understand KDE 6 has experimental support for HDR, but isn’t available on Pop OS 22.04. Apparently Cosmic desktop will support HDR when it’s released, but I don’t know if the experimental version will.
Can anybody help me here? Will I need to change distro?
Check out HDR Monitor Support on the Arch Wiki. It tells you everything you need to know
It kinda sucks that even in Arch you have to use KDE to get HDR support. I greatly prefer Gnome. It’s so stupid simple that I get things done way faster.
even in Arch
What do you mean with “even in Arch”, why would this be different across distros?
Because Arch is a rolling distro, so it gets new stuff faster. I guess what I’m ultimately saying is that it sucks I need to use a DE that I don’t like to get HDR support, or alternatively, it sucks that Gnome doesn’t support HDR, even with the newest version.
Ah got it!
There are other distros with KDE 6, not just Arch.
Or tty
My advise would be to use Kodi. Do not run it as an App. Instead start it from tty as that’s the only way it supports HDR.
I haven’t personally tested this
Thanks I had no idea that was even an option. I knew framebuffer programs could use HDR, but had no idea Kodi was one of them.
Ignore my first comment kinda missed your question. Seems like gamescope HDR support works with mpv aswell according to this Reddit post
Sadly only works in tty aswelly some say it only works on amdvlk
You should try it yourself though, only way to know for sure
Kodi seems to also support HDR when you run it from the tty according to the Arch Wiki. I have no clue how that translates to pop! OS though
Can you just follow the instructions from this page and change the package from KDE plasma to KDE 6? I installed KDE on Pop a while back and it worked fine before I went back to Gnome. But it was the version before 6. I think 6 might require another package that won’t be available in Pop until the next Ubuntu LTS version. If that’s the case then idk what to do other than change distros. Sorry.
https://support.system76.com/articles/desktop-environment/
Edit: if you feel like getting crazy, then you can try installing https://wiki.hyprland.org/Getting-Started/Installation/ but they acknowledge that it might have major issues in Pop. You could always switch to Arch or openSUSE if HDR is important enough to you.
I tried manjaro Linux on a live USB and it didn’t work. I specifically used manjaro because it’s an easy way to get Nvidia drivers on a live system, yes I know it has issues. I doubt Arch would be any better in terms of HDR support.
Can you just follow the instructions from this page and change the package from KDE plasma to KDE 6?
How would you do this? I don’t think that’s actually possible but if you know a way lmk.
Arch does have support for HDR, the how-to is linked by someone else on this post.
I heard that Manjaro has greatly diverged from Arch over the last couple of years. Someone said EOS, which I think stands for Evolution Operating System is closer to Arch now, but I haven’t actually looked into it so idk how accurate that is. Arch takes more work to get set up than Pop does though, just FYI if you’re considering it. It doesn’t come with anything by default, unless you use a script to install.
How would you do this? I don’t think that’s actually possible but if you know a way lmk.
Sorry, I don’t actually know how to do it. I was wondering if you can use the instructions on that page but change the package name to the latest package name. That would definitely install it, but I don’t think it will work. Based on what I read after commenting, Ubuntu LTS doesn’t have the required dependencies, and Pop is based on Ubuntu LTS. It should be available in the next version though.
I heard that Manjaro has greatly diverged from Arch over the last couple of years. Someone said EOS, which I think stands for Evolution Operating System is closer to Arch now, but I haven’t actually looked into it so idk how accurate that is. Arch takes more work to get set up than Pop does though, just FYI if you’re considering it. It doesn’t come with anything by default, unless you use a script to install.
You’re talking to someone who used to be an Arch user. It’s nothing actually specific to arch, it’s an initiative by KDE. People link to arch wiki because the wiki is a good source, and also because arch has more up to date packages than pretty much everything else.
Sorry, I don’t actually know how to do it. I was wondering if you can use the instructions on that page but change the package name to the latest package name. That would definitely install it, but I don’t think it will work. Based on what I read after commenting, Ubuntu LTS doesn’t have the required dependencies, and Pop is based on Ubuntu LTS. It should be available in the next version though.
Is it actually a different package name? That’s not how these types of things normally work. Either the new version is in the repos or it isn’t. The package name doesn’t container the version number either, it’s just kde-standard. I believe KDE 6 isn’t in the standard Ubuntu repos at all, even for 24.04, which is newer than the one Pop OS is based on. It seems you have to use KDE Neon to get 6 on an Ubuntu based system.
