For those, who simply want to repackage the source from UHD to MKV, MakeMKV is fine.Excellent, I thought that it would. Wonder why everyone's talking about Make MKV? With CloneBD I can compress the file size down somewhat, I don't think Make MKV can do that?
For those, who simply want to repackage the source from UHD to MKV, MakeMKV is fine.
But - the free version of CloneBD does the same thing, much more intuitively and easier. And can do a lot more plus comes with a player that helps scanning through the video.
The paid version compresses the video or can transcode to SDR (if you don't have an HDR monitor), ...
So this brings me to another question, I don't have HDR display now, but I will in the near future. I'd like to future-proof my rips to include HDR and Wide Color Gamut in the MKV file. My question is if I encode the MKV with these in it, can I view that video on my current display?
Tricky question. It depends on what players you have available. And what hardware.
CloneBD itself will play back HDR content on an SDR monitor very nicely, if you have an nVidia GTX9xx or higher.
That is because it can convert the colour space and luminance using CUDA pretty efficiently and turns it into proper SDR.
If you play back HDR content with a non-HDR-aware player, the results on an SDR monitor look very pale and greenish.
Proper real-time conversion of HDR to SDR requires good hardware acceleration, because it is computationally hungry as hell.
I see, so I had better just test it for myself?
My playback hardware is a HTPC (i7-3770K) with GTX1080Ti played back with Plex HT through a Denon AVR-X6200W (with HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2)