**HDR Streaming on YouTube**

The latest development in the world of video streaming has brought HDR (High Dynamic Range) to the forefront, and it's exciting to see how this technology is evolving. In recent times, there have been several updates to YouTube's capabilities that enable users to stream HDR content. One of the most significant advancements is the ability to send HDR signals to other software, such as video editing programs.

For PC gamers, using Mirrorless Action with HDR10 acceleration enables streaming in HDR. This means that gamers can enjoy their games in high definition and dynamic range, which provides a more immersive viewing experience. However, it's worth noting that not all software is compatible with HDR output, so users may need to use external video encoders to achieve this effect.

**External Video Encoders**

For those looking to broadcast HDR streams for events or live transmissions, external video encoders are required. These encoders must support HEV (High Efficiency Video) encoding and specific color spaces, such as 10-bit BT2020. Currently, only a few hardware encoders meet these requirements, including Cobalt and Telestream.

It's essential to check the compatibility of any external encoder before using it for HDR streaming. The official list of compatible devices is available on YouTube's website, providing users with peace of mind that their equipment will work seamlessly with the platform.

**Viewing HDR Streams**

To view HDR live streams or videos on a device, an HDR display is required. This can be an HDR TV, a Samsung or LG monitor, or even a Chromecast Ultra connected to an HDR-capable source. Android-based mobile devices with HDR displays can also play back HDR streams in HDR.

However, it's worth noting that not all devices support HDR playback natively. Macs and Windows computers require manual setting of the display settings to enable HDR playback. Unfortunately, this means that users may need to toggle HDR on for their entire system, which can be inconvenient.

**Tone Mapping**

One interesting aspect of HDR streaming is tone mapping, a technique used to convert HDR signals into standard dynamic range (SDR). This allows non-HDR devices to display HDR content without sacrificing quality. YouTube has implemented this feature, and it's been confirmed that users can still watch HDR streams with SDR facial recognition cameras attached.

**Testing and Results**

The author of the article plans to test the tone mapping feature on their stream in the coming days. They're excited to see how this technology will evolve and provide an immersive viewing experience for users. The results of these tests will be shared in future articles, providing readers with a firsthand look at HDR streaming.

**Conclusion**

HDR streaming is a rapidly evolving field, with YouTube at the forefront of innovation. As more devices become compatible with HDR, users can expect to enjoy higher-quality visuals and an enhanced viewing experience. Whether you're a gamer, streamer, or simply someone interested in technology, staying up-to-date on these developments will be essential for unlocking the full potential of HDR streaming.

**Technical Requirements**

To get started with HDR streaming, ensure that your equipment meets the necessary technical requirements. This includes:

* A compatible external video encoder

* An HDR-capable display device (e.g., HDR TV, monitor, or Chromecast Ultra)

* A device capable of playing back HDR streams (e.g., Android-based mobile devices)

**Software Compatibility**

For PC gamers, using Mirrorless Action with HDR10 acceleration is recommended. However, not all software supports HDR output, so users may need to use external video encoders.

**HDR Display Devices**

To view HDR live streams or videos, an HDR display device is required. Available options include:

* HDR TVs

* Samsung and LG monitors

* Chromecast Ultra connected to an HDR-capable source

* Android-based mobile devices with HDR displays

Note: Apple TV is not currently compatible with HDR streaming on YouTube.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyoutube has just released and rolled out hdr or high dynamic range live streaming on their platform this allows you if you have a supported device supported software to stream in hdr for video games or even camera work and then watch in hdr if you have a supported playback device as well this is a little nuanced and a little complicated to get set up given that not everything supports hdr and you can't use obs for instance so we'll be talking about what you need and how you get set up in today's video this video was brought to you by nerd or die and their new glitch 2 cyberpunk 2077 themed stream package which features overlays alerts be right back and stream starting soon scenes a whole chat box theme and stinger transitions along with other elements specifically designed for the cyberpunk 2077 games theme now this is actually available as a free update if you already owned the glitch 2 package this is something that nerdordie does regularly when they add updates or you know new features to packages you've already bought you don't have to pay for them again you just get that as a freebie so if you already owned glitch 2 then you can get the cool new webcam frames and the social media icons and all the new theming for free otherwise pick it up for yourself it is glitch 2 with the cyberpunk 2077 edition theme available at eposvox dot gg slash nerd or die i'm eposvox your stream professor and back in 2016 youtube added support for hdr video which allowed you to upload in high dan high dynamic range if you had video files that were in that format and then it would play back in hdr for those watching on hdr compatible devices or it would do what's called tone mapping in that it converts hdr to sdr with the correct color translations you know without the same range so that normal people could watch it on sdr displays which has been kind of the thing for a while hdr is still kind of a mess in the video space in terms of the standards and how you actually make videos and things like that but in the gaming space you do kind of just get to turn it on and enjoy it and so that's kind of what i'm going to be focusing on here because streaming camera stuff in hdr with actual grades gets way too messy and just outside of the scope of a single video so we're gonna focus on gaming stuff but the actual application of streaming hdr and how you set it up and everything like that will apply pretty much universally as well so you may not have this available immediately but it it was announced and released at the time of recording and should roll out to pretty much everybody you can now stream in hdr but for this you need a supported encoder and unfortunately there are not a lot of them at the moment because most software doesn't support it in fact obs itself doesn't support it it still uses an 8-bit pipeline with no hdr support only rec 709 601 or srgb whereas hdr requires 10-bit and h-in rec 2020 or 2021 or there's a million other standards but isn't supported in obs so if you're looking for computer software to stream pretty much the only option at the moment is a little software called marilla's action and if you haven't heard of that it's it used to be really popular as an alternative to obs and dx story and fraps and things like that for capturing gameplay and i haven't really heard it being much relevance you know in recent years but turns out they actually added hdr encoding support to the software in version 4.12.2 or later and so you're able to use that now you will need specific pc components which include intel 10th generation graphics or later if you're using an igpu or the integrated graphics on your processor or amd radeon rx 5700 or newer because that's when they added hdr support to their amd vce amf encoder or the nvidia geforce gtx 10 series or later because that's where hdr encoding really shines so of course i always talk about invinc and stuff because amd's encoder is still kind of playing some catch ketchup but you do have some options here but you do need that hardware now if you have an intel 10th gen processor that has an igpu then you'll be able to use the igpu encoding for quick sync if you need that as well so you'll need to acquire mirillis action by download it from their site install it and then from there you need to sign into your youtube account to enable youtube live streaming then go to the action video recording tab under hardware acceleration you need to select hdr10 and this will enable hdr encoding then in the live streaming tab you select youtube as your streaming service of course and it will automatically create a broadcast and you'll start streaming on the planet the ark fought hard but they were eventually driven out by the demons now this will not work for every game there are some older hdr games that have weird hdr implementations or whatever but as long as you are running an hdr game that's enabled in hdr your monitor set in hdr you do still need an hdr display for this i think a lot of people get confused even in like my blu-ray ripping videos they're like do i need a blu-ray drive for this yes do you need an hdr display for this yes because otherwise your game's not running in hdr there's no hdr to capture so you need an hdr monitor you need your game running in hdr or a capture device that's pulling in hdr although currently the main available options for that are all forcing it to sdr whenever you're sending it to another program so like the elgato 4k60 pro and the avermedia live gamer 4k both of those can record hdr in their own software but when you you know put the signal out to another software it's forced to sdr so currently this is only for like on pc game capture but i will update you when that changes so run your game in hdr open up mirrorless action hook your game enable hdr 10 as your hardware acceleration and then start streaming and you're pretty much good to go now if you want to use external video encoders to do your hdr streaming for like a broadcast event or something like that you will need a hls output compatible encoder which needs to be able to support hev encoding and this is the first time we've really been able to send hevc signals to youtube which is pretty cool uh it needs to support 10 bit you know 10-bit encoding bt 2020 color space and then some other things that they have listed in their compatibility requirements here the only officially listed uh hardware encoders that they have supported are cobalt which are compatible with 10-bit and hdr as well as telestream and they have setup instructions and things like that for those available as well now if you're looking to view an hdr live stream then you need of course you still need an hdr display be it your hdr tv running the youtube app on your you know your samsung your lg your whatever or a chromecast ultra connected to that uh running in hdr mode the chromecast ultra will actually allow you to view the uh hdr live streams which is pretty cool and i assume the new chromecast that just came out probably does as well uh no listing for apple tv at the moment though however so that's unfortunate and then of course android-based mobile devices that have hdr displays will be able to play back the hdr streams in hdr as well now if you're wanting to watch on a mac or windows computer you can do that you just need to set your monitor to hdr before you load the stream this is the same thing with the youtube videos in hdr the annoying thing about hdr on the desktop is that you have to manually toggle it on for your entire system in order to watch content on it so for example if i pull up an hdr stream or an hdr video on youtube and my desktop isn't set up to that chrome or your browser doesn't know that you support hdr can't manually toggle it and it'll just play it in sdr with the trans with the tone mapping however if you turn on hdr and reload the stream then it will give you the hdr playback options and you can watch an hdr the cool thing here to answer the question that everyone's going to ask if you're streaming in hdr non-hdr people can still watch they do real time what's called tone mapping in that it converts the hdr as i mentioned before to standard dynamic range and makes it look normal on your screen and i have been told by the youtube people i've been in contact with that you can actually use normal kind of looking face cams that are still in sdr and stuff on your hdr video and it will mostly look normal so i'll be doing some testing of this today you'll see it on screen what the results are keep in mind however graphics and things like that that you have are going to look a little dull or washed out on an hdr screen if they're not built for hdr the digital foundry runs into this issue on their videos all the time because sdr and hdr are completely different ranges so if you have sdr assets in an hdr stream they don't look quite right but this is a first step towards unlocking you know more of that hdr capability in the future it seems everything's heading that way so you have the option of streaming it here and it's pretty cool that they are rolling it out even if it's kind of early in maturity in terms of what can actually support it i'm excited to see this progress and i look forward to doing some hdr streams in the future once i'm settled in my new studio i'm still moving here you can see i'm pulling things off the shelves and stuff uh so excited to check that out but let me know what you think in the comment section down below and let me know if you're actually doing any hdr streams because i want to see what people are doing with it hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more tech education and stream guides join us on discord discord.gd eposvox if you have any questions about this setting it up you know testing it out anything like that come join us and talk to us we'd love to hear about it and i'll see you in the next oneyoutube has just released and rolled out hdr or high dynamic range live streaming on their platform this allows you if you have a supported device supported software to stream in hdr for video games or even camera work and then watch in hdr if you have a supported playback device as well this is a little nuanced and a little complicated to get set up given that not everything supports hdr and you can't use obs for instance so we'll be talking about what you need and how you get set up in today's video this video was brought to you by nerd or die and their new glitch 2 cyberpunk 2077 themed stream package which features overlays alerts be right back and stream starting soon scenes a whole chat box theme and stinger transitions along with other elements specifically designed for the cyberpunk 2077 games theme now this is actually available as a free update if you already owned the glitch 2 package this is something that nerdordie does regularly when they add updates or you know new features to packages you've already bought you don't have to pay for them again you just get that as a freebie so if you already owned glitch 2 then you can get the cool new webcam frames and the social media icons and all the new theming for free otherwise pick it up for yourself it is glitch 2 with the cyberpunk 2077 edition theme available at eposvox dot gg slash nerd or die i'm eposvox your stream professor and back in 2016 youtube added support for hdr video which allowed you to upload in high dan high dynamic range if you had video files that were in that format and then it would play back in hdr for those watching on hdr compatible devices or it would do what's called tone mapping in that it converts hdr to sdr with the correct color translations you know without the same range so that normal people could watch it on sdr displays which has been kind of the thing for a while hdr is still kind of a mess in the video space in terms of the standards and how you actually make videos and things like that but in the gaming space you do kind of just get to turn it on and enjoy it and so that's kind of what i'm going to be focusing on here because streaming camera stuff in hdr with actual grades gets way too messy and just outside of the scope of a single video so we're gonna focus on gaming stuff but the actual application of streaming hdr and how you set it up and everything like that will apply pretty much universally as well so you may not have this available immediately but it it was announced and released at the time of recording and should roll out to pretty much everybody you can now stream in hdr but for this you need a supported encoder and unfortunately there are not a lot of them at the moment because most software doesn't support it in fact obs itself doesn't support it it still uses an 8-bit pipeline with no hdr support only rec 709 601 or srgb whereas hdr requires 10-bit and h-in rec 2020 or 2021 or there's a million other standards but isn't supported in obs so if you're looking for computer software to stream pretty much the only option at the moment is a little software called marilla's action and if you haven't heard of that it's it used to be really popular as an alternative to obs and dx story and fraps and things like that for capturing gameplay and i haven't really heard it being much relevance you know in recent years but turns out they actually added hdr encoding support to the software in version 4.12.2 or later and so you're able to use that now you will need specific pc components which include intel 10th generation graphics or later if you're using an igpu or the integrated graphics on your processor or amd radeon rx 5700 or newer because that's when they added hdr support to their amd vce amf encoder or the nvidia geforce gtx 10 series or later because that's where hdr encoding really shines so of course i always talk about invinc and stuff because amd's encoder is still kind of playing some catch ketchup but you do have some options here but you do need that hardware now if you have an intel 10th gen processor that has an igpu then you'll be able to use the igpu encoding for quick sync if you need that as well so you'll need to acquire mirillis action by download it from their site install it and then from there you need to sign into your youtube account to enable youtube live streaming then go to the action video recording tab under hardware acceleration you need to select hdr10 and this will enable hdr encoding then in the live streaming tab you select youtube as your streaming service of course and it will automatically create a broadcast and you'll start streaming on the planet the ark fought hard but they were eventually driven out by the demons now this will not work for every game there are some older hdr games that have weird hdr implementations or whatever but as long as you are running an hdr game that's enabled in hdr your monitor set in hdr you do still need an hdr display for this i think a lot of people get confused even in like my blu-ray ripping videos they're like do i need a blu-ray drive for this yes do you need an hdr display for this yes because otherwise your game's not running in hdr there's no hdr to capture so you need an hdr monitor you need your game running in hdr or a capture device that's pulling in hdr although currently the main available options for that are all forcing it to sdr whenever you're sending it to another program so like the elgato 4k60 pro and the avermedia live gamer 4k both of those can record hdr in their own software but when you you know put the signal out to another software it's forced to sdr so currently this is only for like on pc game capture but i will update you when that changes so run your game in hdr open up mirrorless action hook your game enable hdr 10 as your hardware acceleration and then start streaming and you're pretty much good to go now if you want to use external video encoders to do your hdr streaming for like a broadcast event or something like that you will need a hls output compatible encoder which needs to be able to support hev encoding and this is the first time we've really been able to send hevc signals to youtube which is pretty cool uh it needs to support 10 bit you know 10-bit encoding bt 2020 color space and then some other things that they have listed in their compatibility requirements here the only officially listed uh hardware encoders that they have supported are cobalt which are compatible with 10-bit and hdr as well as telestream and they have setup instructions and things like that for those available as well now if you're looking to view an hdr live stream then you need of course you still need an hdr display be it your hdr tv running the youtube app on your you know your samsung your lg your whatever or a chromecast ultra connected to that uh running in hdr mode the chromecast ultra will actually allow you to view the uh hdr live streams which is pretty cool and i assume the new chromecast that just came out probably does as well uh no listing for apple tv at the moment though however so that's unfortunate and then of course android-based mobile devices that have hdr displays will be able to play back the hdr streams in hdr as well now if you're wanting to watch on a mac or windows computer you can do that you just need to set your monitor to hdr before you load the stream this is the same thing with the youtube videos in hdr the annoying thing about hdr on the desktop is that you have to manually toggle it on for your entire system in order to watch content on it so for example if i pull up an hdr stream or an hdr video on youtube and my desktop isn't set up to that chrome or your browser doesn't know that you support hdr can't manually toggle it and it'll just play it in sdr with the trans with the tone mapping however if you turn on hdr and reload the stream then it will give you the hdr playback options and you can watch an hdr the cool thing here to answer the question that everyone's going to ask if you're streaming in hdr non-hdr people can still watch they do real time what's called tone mapping in that it converts the hdr as i mentioned before to standard dynamic range and makes it look normal on your screen and i have been told by the youtube people i've been in contact with that you can actually use normal kind of looking face cams that are still in sdr and stuff on your hdr video and it will mostly look normal so i'll be doing some testing of this today you'll see it on screen what the results are keep in mind however graphics and things like that that you have are going to look a little dull or washed out on an hdr screen if they're not built for hdr the digital foundry runs into this issue on their videos all the time because sdr and hdr are completely different ranges so if you have sdr assets in an hdr stream they don't look quite right but this is a first step towards unlocking you know more of that hdr capability in the future it seems everything's heading that way so you have the option of streaming it here and it's pretty cool that they are rolling it out even if it's kind of early in maturity in terms of what can actually support it i'm excited to see this progress and i look forward to doing some hdr streams in the future once i'm settled in my new studio i'm still moving here you can see i'm pulling things off the shelves and stuff uh so excited to check that out but let me know what you think in the comment section down below and let me know if you're actually doing any hdr streams because i want to see what people are doing with it hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more tech education and stream guides join us on discord discord.gd eposvox if you have any questions about this setting it up you know testing it out anything like that come join us and talk to us we'd love to hear about it and i'll see you in the next one\n"