HDR demos: APEX FTE presentation
Hands-on HDR demo content accompanying Michael Stattmann's APEX FTE talk
Here you'll find the most compatible example of HDR content (i.e. HDR10) along with an SDR variant and a Dolby Vision profile 5 encode. The only codec supported across all PEDs is HEVC, however, it's unfortunately not broadly supported in browsers. Due to this we provide an SDR variant as an H264 encoded version.
A VP9 HDR version of the HDR10 content will be added in the coming days.
Please contact castLabs for more information or if you have any questions.
In addition to the videos on this page, more formats are available through our online content portal and Android demo app including:
Username: IFE-HDHDR
Password: IFE-HDHDR
Sideload this app on your Android device. You must first enable APKs installations in your device's settings.
All of these demos are available in our online content portal and Android app. Demos marked by an * are available on this page.
| Demo content # | Demo | Safari & Edge (HEVC support in Chromium based Edge is experimental and your mileage may vary) |
Chrome (example: on Android) |
Android app |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1623 | HDR Cosmos Laundromat Hybrid Dolby Vision 8.1 & HDR10+ 1000nits, 1080p HEVC, HLS | Apple doesn't support the Dolby Vision profile 8.1 on mobile devices, but device could play back HDR10 "base layer". However, it doesn't actually work due to a bug in Apple's AVPlayer, but castLabs has a custom solution available to address the issue (on request). | Doesn't play because of HEVC. | Provides best experience on most Android devices due to supporting static as well as dynamic metadata in Dolby as well as HDR10+ formats. Some Android devices with Dolby Vision support don't support profile 8.1, but the HDR10 "base layer" will always work. |
| 1625 * | HDR Cosmos Laundromat Dolby Vision Profile 5 4000nits, 1080p HEVC, HLS | Best quality on Safari. | Doesn't play because of HEVC. | Only plays on Android devices with Dolby Vision support. |
| 1634 | SDR Cosmos Laundromat tone mapped 1080p HEVC, DASH | Plays as expected. | Doesn't play because of HEVC. | Plays as expected. |
| 1635 * | HDR Cosmos Laundromat HDR10 1000nits, 1080p HEVC, DASH | 1000 nits tone mapped HDR10 version provides reasonably good experience without dynamic metadata on most devices due to native display capabilities being in a similar dynamic range. | Doesn't play because of HEVC. | 1000 nits tone mapped HDR10 version provides reasonably good experience without dynamic metadata on most devices due to native display capabilities being in a similar dynamic range. |
| 1636 | HDR Cosmos Laundromat HDR10+ 4000nits, 1080p HEVC, DASH | Plays with limitations in fidelity of brightness due to too large dynamic range. | Doesn't play because of HEVC. | Plays with limitations in fidelity of brightness due to too large dynamic range. |
| 1640 * | SDR Cosmos Laundromat tone mapped 720p h264, HLS | Plays as expected. | Plays as expected. | Plays as expected. |