Using Kodi 21 directly on an Android 12 Google TV. The TV supports all versions of HDR. Yes, I am 100% positive… they are all indicated in the TV specs and I’ve tested and confirmed all versions using actual videos many different times.
Problem: With some hybrid videos (e.g. DoVi/HDR10 or DoVi/HDR10+) Kodi will default to HDR10 or 10+ rather than DoVi. With 10+ I can at least use the workaround of disabling HDR10+ in plater settings. It’s obviously a PITA to have to manually disable then later reenable that but at least it works. But with DoVi/HDR10 hybrid videos, I’ve been unable to even find a workaround and must resort to using an entirely different player that instead defaults to DoVi. BTW, I have tried the settings icon while playing the video and checked the stream in video settings but there is only 1 stream = despite reading elsewhere it can be used to select either DoVi or HDR that has not actually been the case with any of multiple hyrbrid HDR videos I’ve tried.
Thus, my questions are:
1) Why not implement an HDR priority setting in which users can set their own preference? For example, for me on my TV it would be Dolby Vision then HDR10+ then HDR10.
2) In the meantime, is there a workaround to force Kodi to use DoVi instead of HDR10 in hybrid videos in which it is currently defaulting to HDR?