HDR-to-SDR Tonemapping - bright and oversaturated colors on one film only

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I’ve recently noticed an issue with one of my 4K-HDR10 MKV rips that appears when using the tonemapping option on the Windows client (my PMS is hosted on a Beelink S12 Pro Mini PC). For Spider-Man (2002, 4K HDR10 HEVC Main 10), the colors look extremely blown out with this tonemapping and transcoding enabled. However, when it uses Direct Play on my SDR screen instead, the colors look fine, even identical to how it looks when I Direct Play it in HDR on my webOS/LG TV. It almost feels like the tonemapping is applying itself twice, if that makes any sense.

This doesn’t seem to apply to other MKV files I have though: The Mandalorian Season 1 (4K HDR10 HEVC Main 10) looks too dim on my SDR screen unless I have the tonemapping on. Same with Everything Everywhere All at Once (4K DoVi/HDR10 HEVC Main 10). Is there a way to fix this, since it seems to only occur with one movie?

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Anyone know what may be causing this issue?

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If you did not rip this yourself, it might be a bad rip.

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I believe this was a 4K rip of my own, from the OOP Limited Edition Collection. Granted, I think I ripped this back when I only had an internal LG disc drive. I have a properly flashed Pioneer drive from MakeMKV forums now, so I could try ripping again but with that instead.

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That is the path I would try next tbh.

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I just re-ripped it with the Pioneer drive, but honestly it looks the same to me as before. Half-tempted to say Spider-Man is meant to look this blown out with HDR, but it loses so much detail in comparison to SDR (and also the Direct Play/SDR stream looks nearly identical to how the movie looks on my HDR-compatible TV).

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Have also tried a Dolby Vision TV stream and it also doesn’t remove detail and blow out colors as tonemapping this movie does

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Anyone know what might be the solution for this? I’m not sure why it’s only oversaturating this movie and no other HDR media of the same profile

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I cannot answer this question myself, but can you post the full mediainfo output for this file?

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I don’t have the file I ripped anymore, as I’m going to try buying the newer 4K trilogy set off Amazon soon (I was comparing my file size and bitrate with another Plex user’s and mine was smaller on both for some reason, which is part of why I’m doing this). This is what I have left from that discussion.

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Sorry, I meant the output from the application called MediaInfo. The screenshot you provided has some of it, but the media info output will be more complete. This is missing audio and subtitle info in your capture.

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