Advanced HDR Player on iOS – User Manual
Advanced HDR Player is a simple video player application capable of reconstructing HDR video for SDR streams including SL-HDR metadata (a.k.a. Advanced HDR by Technicolor). The app supports mov, mp4 and ts files containing video encoded in hevc or avc format.
App requirements:
A HDR-capable iPad pro with M1 processor, running iOS 14.5 or later
or
An iPhone / iPad with a A12 chip or later, running iOS 14.5 or later
Selecting a sequence: Alternatively video sequences can be opened from the Files application. Select a sequence file, tap on the button, and choose SLHDR Player in the Share sheet. “Open in SLHDR Player” may also be proposed as the default choice, depending on other installed video players on your device.
Tap on the Sequence Selection button to show a standard iOS file selector, that gives access to video files on the current device, as well as files located on clouds, connected USB drives and SMB servers.
Alternatively, a long press on the SLHDR Player app icon in the iPad home screen or dock will show a list of recently opened sequences. Tap on a sequence in this list to play it. Finally, for quick access to preferred sequences, a popup list of sequences is displayed when long-pressing the Sequence Selection button in the SLHDR Player app (see section Controls below). You configure this list by copying sequence files to the “SLHDR Player” folder located on the iPad. Connect your iPad to a Mac to get access to this folder in the Finder, or use the Files app on the iPad. On a Mac, the folders for the installed apps on the iPad can be found in the Files tab of the iPad, shown in the Locations sidebar section of any Finder window:
Advanced HDR logo (top right of the video): The Advanced HDR logo is visible if SL-HDR metadata is present in the sequence and if the HDR up-conversion has been done for the displayed image.
Controls: Sequence selection Tap = show file selector. Long-press = show the list of locally installed sequences. Tap on a sequence name in the list to play it.
Play / pause Playback speed Tap for fast-forward: 1x, 2x, 4x Long-press for slow motion: 0.1x, 0.25x, 0.5x
Toggle SL-HDR / Original SDR content SL-HDR output video is displayed Original (SDR) encoded video is displayed
Other actions Hide / Show the banner: one-finger tap outside of the banner Zoom / Unzoom the video: two-fingers tap on the video