I recently obtained an HDR TV and so I’ve gotten some HDR-content accordingly, but I’ve noticed that when trying to play that content on some other device that doesn’t have an HDR-display, the colours are all washed out and terrible. VLC does know how to handle such a situation perfectly well and does tone-mapping for non-HDR output, but Plex seemingly doesn’t. Is there any way of fixing this? I mean, I cannot upgrade every single device in the household to something with HDR-capabilities!
For the foreseeable future, don’t play HDR media on non-HDR compatible devices.
AFAIK, Plex Media Player and the currently beta iOS/AppleTV player are the only Plex apps with the ability to tonemap HDR to SDR (both of which are based on mpv.io, IIRC).
Personally, I keep my HDR media in a separate library from my non-HDR media. When I am using a non-HDR compatible device, I do not choose movies/TV shows/etc from the HDR libraries. Similar for sharing with friends/family, I don’t share HDR libraries with those w/o HDR compatible devices.
I was afraid that’d be the answer. I am already running low on disk-space, let alone if I have to keep a billion different versions of everything, not to mention that it’s a really ugly workaround to have to maintain multiple different libraries. 
I guess I don’t have much choice. I just hope the Plex-devs will do something about this stuff soon. Spanks, anyways, mate.
To be fair, this seems to be a tough cookie and it is not only Plex that hasn’t come up with a solution until now. Guess we have to sit back and wait, I go with the extra library and only watch those movies on my main TV, where HDR is enabled.
Windows MPC (w/ madvr) also “knows” how to handle HDR->SDR. Unfortunately the kluge continues for Plex.
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