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Hi,

I wanted to buy a RPi to plug into my TV, to act as a media center but I couldn't find any technical information about the HDMI ports on the board.

The transcoding would be made by my home server so the Pi only have to play it (using Kodi for instance) on the TV basically, but I have 4K HDR10 content and I would like to know if the Pi can output such content.

Are the micro-HDMI >= 2.0?

Also, is the display drivers capable of displaying 4K HDR10? For example on my windows computer, I can chose "HDR" in my Radeon settings, does the Pi has this option?

The RPi4 hardware is technically HDR capable, but it lacks compatible software. So LibreELEC (Kodi) can play HDR videos, but only in SDR mode (with poor results, colors are faded and washed out). It's been almost a year, but now maybe the software will be ready soon.

We were waiting for kernel 5.4, but that's been around for a while now and 10b still hasn't materialised.

Apparently LibreELEC is likely to have it before Raspb^WPiOS, so it might be worth keeping an eye on their source trees.

Perfect, I'll wait then, thanks guys!

X doesn't support HDR, therefore it really is only for dedicated media players.
Even then you get interesting times should you wish to combine an RGB GUI over the top of HDR content.
It's coming (it's mainly just plumbing), but it also needs the client to do sensible things too, and I'm not sure Kodi has the relevant plumbing in as yet, at least not based on mainline kernel APIs.

Mmm, I get the trouble, but all I really care about is a commandline console player -- vlc works, and works well; I'm using it in preference to omxplayer now, so thanks to (all of your team) who made that work -- capable of 1080p H.264 and 10b4k HEVC. I'll slum it with Kodi, probably on LibreELEC if that's all that'll do it to begin with, if I have to, but it's hardly ideal.