With AV1 my understanding is that HDR video is going to become a thing we have to support. There are two levels of support:
I was told that supporting HDR in the shader is more involved than our current non-HDR "just multiply by this matrix" color conversion code and that VLC uses a somehting that generates shaders on the fly for HDR video.
https://github.com/servo/webrender/pull/3113 handles the first part of this task.
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https://github.com/servo/webrender/pull/3113 handles the first part of this task.