EncodeThis420 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 2:38 pm
Sorry to reply to you directly but would you able to confirm my question on profile 8 hybrids? I can't find a diffinitive answer and it seems like EVERYONE is encoding with profile 8 hybrid formats now. I'm not seeing ANY native profile 5 formats any longer :-/. Do you see this as an issue? This is in reference to P5 streams combined with hdr10/+ streams,
not hdr10 blurays that are combined with a p5 stream.
making p8 hybrid is not an issue as long as you make sure the P5 and HDR10 encode are the same brightness/master. I have a huge excel sheet about it in my signature.
Most of the p2p or scene groups make hybrid without checking any of this and it is a problem especially if they are not going to release the profile 5 source which seems to happen more frequently lately.
While most of the time, the P5 and HDR10 encode are from the same source/master, it doesn't mean it will always be the same, and making hybrid releases blindly is wrong.
And sometimes studios decide to deliver different trim pass even though it's from the same master.
two examples I came across recently:
Black Widow profile 5 iMAX is much brighter than the HDR10 IMAX web-dl:
https://slow.pics/c/zzHW5Qhv
And recently Hot Pursuit (which FLUX only released hybrid P8):
https://slow.pics/c/37t2bB4J