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HPC=high performance compute. I'm not sure that HDR would come up there. Maybe you are thinking of HTPC (home theater personal computer)?

I actually was just looking this up, quite randomly. I think it is actually a soft no, in the sense that support is essentially non-existent now, but it is being worked on.

It appears to be an annoying situation where HDCP (high definition content protect, I think) content has some sort of encryption baked in that requires proprietary driver/hardware support. Since the main use case for HDR is watching movies, and we can't do that without the proprietary stuff, there's not a ton of incremental value for the community to get by working on it. But Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Red Hat are all working on it.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Red-Hat-...

Also this recent version of libreelec

https://libreelec.tv/2021/11/03/libreelec-matrix-10-0-1/

advertises that they can process (decode?) 4k, 10 bit video, on a raspberry pi 4, but they apparently only 8 bit output is actually available. Not sure if this is a hardware or software limitation.

Anyway, the pieces are maybe coming together, just very slowly.



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