r/mpv

I'm currently using mpv Rex it's good and wondering if there is a better mpv fork

If you use adaptive-sharpen.glsl in mpv, you're on a port that switched to the author's lower-quality one-pass in 2020 and hasn't been updated since 2022. bacondither's latest full-quality 2-pass (2021) never made it to mpv, so I ported it.

What you get: crisper detail with fewer halos around edges, and the same result whether mpv runs on D3D11 or Vulkan.

Comparison (slider; pick "HQ 2-pass (new)" on one side): https://slow.pics/s/taH5tV9P

Download: https://github.com/flowreen/Miscellaneous-shaders/blob/mpv-adaptive-sharpen-2pass/Adaptive-sharpen%20-%20mpv/Adaptive-sharpen-mpv.glsl

Put it in your mpv shaders folder and add glsl-shaders=~~/shaders/Adaptive-sharpen-mpv.glsl to mpv.conf. Strength is curve_height in the Settings block at the start of pass 2 (default 1.0, up to 2.0 for stronger).

All credit to bacondither. I've also offered it to his repo: https://github.com/bacondither/Miscellaneous-shaders/pull/1

The gist of it is i have a miniled monitor that has two viable dimming modes when HDR is on : Medium and High.

High has great contrast but the algorithm dims highlights. Id say its about 2x reduction in brightness for speculars. Medium has amazing brightness on highlights but introduces blooming which is tolerable in some media.

Im interested in a middle ground of sorts where i just have the dimming on High.

Ive experimented with claude and some custom mpv settings. The highlights can look better already but it tends to brighten the picture more than i need.

So the question is how do i go about this? In High mode i can see highlights can get brighter, i dont expect them to match medium of course. Is there anything out there that can tell mpv to make specualrs or highlights a certain percentage brighter?