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So I think it's an issue in handrake which doesn't do the color conversion or set the flags correctly. Got answer from Handbrake Team: He's right, bt470bg transfer function is gamma 2.8, and HandBrake doesn't support it yet (probably because so few DVD-Video used it? Who knows after all this years)...

Hi, do you have logs for the two different playbacks? And maybe a sample with original/transcoded? This looks weird indeed. You could try with the nightly, but I think most patches about HDR have been backported. Thanks for your answer. Since the videos work, but look way different I started playba...

Hey, after I transcoded a DVD video via Handbrake to x265, the color looks "washed out" in VLC. In other players like MPC-HC, the original video and the transcoded one looked almost identical. Original video screenshot (via VLC 3.0.6) https://i.imgur.com/LVCxkKY.jpg Handbrake transcode scr...