Right now, when I hit play to Blader Runner 2049, it asks me if I want to play:
32Mbps, 4K
30Mbps, 4K
16Mbps, 4K
I’d like to be able to edit these labels to read:
4K HDR
4K SDR
4K 3D
so I can tell which version I’m going to see.
The core of that request is already contained in this one;
I therefore recommend to close this one in favor of the older one
Please respect the rules for this subforum
- Search first if the request has already been posted before. The goal is to collect the votes for a particular feature in one thread - not to scatter them around.
- Please only one feature per post
These are different requests. The rules also state that there should be one feature per request.
It makes more sense to try to tackle this one issue at a time since it seems that the Plex devs aren’t interested in implementing the request as it’s started on the other post.
I’m kinda aligned with Ashkaan here about having this as it’s own feature request, with a caveat.
While very similar, the linked request is about merging different editions of a film (Theatrical, Directors Cut, Extended Edition etc) under one entry and labelling each so Plex offers which to play. I’m a little on the fence about that. I’ve currently got multiple cuts of films listed separately and it works OK (lets me set metadata to reflect the different cuts) but I think ideally that alternate cuts should be an extension of Local Extras Content (among other improvements) and it wouldn’t surprise me if the Plex devs were thinking along similar lines given how long that request has been there without implementation…
I do also see that if that feature request WERE to be implemented, then what is asked for in this feature request would also work, although a little more as a side effect than anything.
This feature request I think fits more with requesting the specs of files be expanded. If Plex could show “This version has HDR content, this version does not” kind of like how it shows bitrate and resolution, that would be more specific than the general “Let me type in whatever I like as the Version Name”. Maybe the first post for this request could be edited to ask for the “Version” popup to also show a tag for SDR, HDR and maybe 3D (Although the devs have already specified elsewhere that 3D versions should be listed as a second Library item) based on the file content in order to be able to tell them apart? So at minimum, the example above could go from:
Select a Version
* 32Mbps, 4K
* 30Mbps, 4K
to:
Select a Version
* 32Mbps, 4K, HDR
* 30Mbps, 4K, SDR
(And the same for 3D if it were included)
Obviously when Versions became part of Plex, HDR wasn’t a thing, so it would be good if it could be updated to work with that.
Of course, in an ideal world, we’d be using HDR in files, just like it is on bluray, where you have the movie, and a track built in with the HDR data alongside, so you only need 1 file and HDR capable devices will just use HDR and non-HDR capable devices just play back without the HDR data. Ideal world 
Are you talking about a data file with just x.x.2 chroma subsampling? I’m not sure of a format that allows that kind of separation. Better off just using x265/HEVC in an MKV container and let the player determine if it needs to use the extra subsampling.
In general, if you have any data in the third chroma field, it’s HDR, and whether that’s 10bit or greater is kind of irrelevant on most panels and projectors right now (even though I’m sure 12bit panels will be the next real generation).
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate (more details on version selection pane)
