HDR Content on Chrome Works Sometimes... Help solve this mystery!!

[AlexArmitage]

Brand new here because this is driving me nuts. I make YouTube videos for a living and I'm trying to make some HDR content. For the longest time I thought my videos being uploaded just weren't getting correctly detected by YouTube and never getting detected to be HDR. Then I checked it on my iPhone 13 and HDR was available. But it wasn't in Chrome on my laptop...

I'm running a 14" M1Max. The weird part is popular HDR videos on YouTube do work in Chrome and HDR is enabled. Yet the videos I've uploaded were not working in HDR (They are working in HDR on my Phone).

In both Safari and Chrome, if I change the user agent to Chrome (Windows) it works. Yet if it's Chrome for Mac, it doesn't work. It just doesn't make sense to me that HDR content on major videos like this one works in Chrome without issue, but to get it to detect HDR on my videos I have to change the user agent to Chrome for Windows.

Anyone have ANY ideas?!!?

 

[TheRealAlex]

Go into Chrome settings and select GPU or Hardware utilization. That enables HDR

 

[AlexArmitage]

Go into Chrome settings and select GPU or Hardware utilization. That enables HDR

It is already enabled. And like I said, HDR works in Chrome... sometimes. It works in the video I linked but it doesn't work on other videos. The solution to get it to work on those other videos is to change the user agent to chrome (windows) and it magically works.

 

[haruhiko]

It shows HDR on the setting but it’s not. Compare it with the iPad Pro 12.9 inch 2021 side by side and you will see it. Very obvious.

 

[Sanpete]

It just doesn't make sense to me that HDR content on major videos like this one works in Chrome without issue

Only shows in SDR for me. You can control(^)-click on the video and select Stats for nerds to check. I only get bt709 color, which is SDR.

 

[white7561]

It's been discussed many times here. YouTube disabled HDR for Macs for now. We think it's because of firmware bug in the new 2021 MBPs which sometimes kernel panics when playing HDR content only on YouTube