# Does Plex Media Server support HDR to SDR Transcoding.
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [January 12, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375 "2018-01-12T23:30:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dion250](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dion250)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/1 "2018-01-12T23:30:19Z")
As the Title says… Does Plex support HDR to SDR Transcoding on TVs/Devices that don’t support HDR?
By this I mean doing a HDR to SDR transcoding with tonemaping done so the colors don’t look washed out.
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### Author:  [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/2 "2018-01-12T23:45:16Z")
Not at this time but it is being looked into
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### Author:  [@adambahe](https://forums.plex.tv/u/adambahe)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/3 "2018-01-14T08:11:36Z")
This would be a huge help, because a lot of 4K downloads coming out now are HDR only. And the colors on SDR 4k/1080p just look like its colorblind and super washed out. I hope you guys add it! Otherwise, I’m going to have to split out my library for myself vs other users who have HDR televisions. Which would be a huge pain to manually manage and have two versions of every media file…
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### Author:  [@Dion250](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dion250)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/4 "2018-01-15T03:58:09Z")
Something I would like to beta test 😄
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### Author:  [@Balthazar2k4](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Balthazar2k4)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/5 "2018-01-22T15:04:51Z")
I think with the newfound ability to place our 4K titles on the server, HDR to SDR transcoding should be more important than ever. As of right now, I am having to keep the regular BD and 4K BD on my NAS simultaneously to account for the SDR TVs in my house. The ability to transcode would mean I could free up a lot of space.
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### Author:  [@Dion250](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dion250)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/6 "2018-01-25T00:00:38Z")
> @Balthazar2k4 said:
> I think with the newfound ability to place our 4K titles on the server, HDR to SDR transcoding should be more important than ever. As of right now, I am having to keep the regular BD and 4K BD on my NAS simultaneously to account for the SDR TVs in my house. The ability to transcode would mean I could free up a lot of space.
Yup this is exactly what I have to do too… and it sucks…
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### Author:  [@jayper415](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jayper415)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/7 "2018-01-25T04:04:56Z")
> @BigWheel said:
> Not at this time but it is being looked into
That is great news! Thanks so much!
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### Author:  [@rxp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rxp)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/8 "2018-01-25T08:59:26Z")
Fire Stick 3 does this by itself. But Plex doesn’t understand that so tries to convert everything :-/
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### Author:  [@repentance](https://forums.plex.tv/u/repentance)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/9 "2018-01-25T16:51:46Z")
> @rxp said:
> Fire Stick 3 does this by itself. But Plex doesn’t understand that so tries to convert everything :-/
Is this something Amazon put in specs or have you just noticed that it’s remapping color gamuts from testing?
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### Author:  [@rxp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rxp)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/10 "2018-01-27T06:00:32Z")
Just noticed it playing back via kodi. There’s no settings but it works great
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### Author:  [@Dion250](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dion250)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/11 "2018-01-29T00:24:55Z")
That’s Kodi not the Plex App or Media Server…
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### Author:  [@KarlDag](https://forums.plex.tv/u/KarlDag)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/12 "2018-01-29T02:16:53Z")
> @rxp said:
> Just noticed it playing back via kodi. There’s no settings but it works great
So any device that supports Kodi could use the Plex for Kodi add-on to work around this issue.
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### Author:  [@Achilles](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Achilles)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/13 "2018-01-29T02:38:12Z")
> @KarlDag said:
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> > @rxp said:
> > Just noticed it playing back via kodi. There’s no settings but it works great
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> So any device that supports Kodi could use the Plex for Kodi add-on to work around this issue.
> As long as you can Direct Play. PMP will do the same thing when 4K HDR is Direct Played. Transcoding is where HDR to SDR tone mapping is still a WIP.
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### Author:  [@rxp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rxp)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/14 "2018-01-29T17:06:22Z")
Exactly I use Plex for Kodi and it works fine. My mum’s really happy cause she can finally get into all the 4k goodness on her 1080p OLED!
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### Author:  [@Achilles](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Achilles)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/15 "2018-01-29T17:58:05Z")
> @rxp said:
> Exactly I use Plex for Kodi and it works fine. My mum’s really happy cause she can finally get into all the 4k goodness on her 1080p OLED!
> To experience the full 4K HDR experience both Kodi and mpv devs need to enable HDR10 passthrough instead of tone-mapping. There are OS, drivers and frameworks that need to be developed on all OSes still. Right now I use NVIDIA Shield+Kodi/Plex, AppleTV 4K+Infuse or the LG webOS Plex app to watch 4K HDR natively. Anxiously waiting for all the piecs to come together for all the different other client platforms.
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### Author:  [@repentance](https://forums.plex.tv/u/repentance)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/16 "2018-02-27T17:11:14Z")
> @Achilles said:
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> > @rxp said:
> > Exactly I use Plex for Kodi and it works fine. My mum’s really happy cause she can finally get into all the 4k goodness on her 1080p OLED!
> > To experience the full 4K HDR experience both Kodi and mpv devs need to enable HDR10 passthrough instead of tone-mapping. There are OS, drivers and frameworks that need to be developed on all OSes still. Right now I use NVIDIA Shield+Kodi/Plex, AppleTV 4K+Infuse or the LG webOS Plex app to watch 4K HDR natively. Anxiously waiting for all the piecs to come together for all the different other client platforms.
Maybe I misunderstand you but nobody’s thinking tonemapping is the end. But until plex can tonemap while it transcodes we have to keep two different files.
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### Author:  [@Dion250](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dion250)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/17 "2018-04-09T22:53:08Z")
Any update or love for this? Be nice to have 1 file instead of 2.
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### Author:  [@a5ian300zx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/a5ian300zx)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/18 "2018-05-18T18:04:56Z")
+1 Now with the ability to rip your 4k discs and also to convert video with HDR this feature is really missing in PMS to compete with 4k playback etc.
I have media players that will play it back locally but when I am out and about and want to watch transcoded 4k content this would help otherwise the only solution is to have two copies one 4K and one HD.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Afullmark](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Afullmark)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/19 "2018-05-24T11:46:13Z")
> @BigWheel said:
> Not at this time but it is being looked into
Any update on this considering: [https://stevens.li/guides/video/converting-hdr-to-sdr-with-ffmpeg/](https://stevens.li/guides/video/converting-hdr-to-sdr-with-ffmpeg/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-plex-media-server-support-hdr-to-sdr-transcoding/221375/20 "2020-01-08T00:26:42Z")