Recently switched to AMD with a 6800 XT after being on Nvidia for about 6 years (980 -> 1080 -> 1080 ti). So far its been great, but I was shocked to find that ReLive does not support recording in HDR. I do not stream or anything, but I have always had Instant Reply running when gaming, as I'm sure most people do, to capture cool or funny moments.
I have the Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED monitor, so I always play in HDR or AutoHDR if the game doesnt support HDR. With my old GTX 1080 ti (a 5+ year old GPU), I had no issues with recording when playing in AutoHDR or native HDR.
With AMD on my 6800 XT, this just doesn't work at all. It doesnt record in the correct color space and the recordings are un-usable as they are extremely dark. No combination or settings or encoder type would get this to work with ReLive. The hardware should support this as recording in HDR does work with OBS (AutoHDR also can work too). This would be supported in ReLive natively, however, and this is just another area where AMD is far behind compared to Nvidia.
To demonstrate this issue, I took a recording of me playing in HDR using both ReLive and OBS. The recording were uploaded raw directly to YouTube. I got the codec info using VLC.
Playing in HDR, Recording Using ReLive
ReLive Settings:
- Video Bit Rate (Mb/s): 80
- Video Encoding Type: HEVC
The capture: https://youtu.be/3nuRcHvjwwg
The video info of the recording: https://imgur.com/fdMOkBi
- Color transfer function: ITU-R BT.709
- Color space: ITU-R BT.709 Range
Playing in HDR, Recording using OBS
OBS Settings:
- Encoder: AMD HW H.265 (HEVC)
- Rate Control: CBR
- Bitrate: 80000 Kbps
- Color Format: P010 (10-bit, 4:2:0, 2 planes)
- Color Space: Rec. 2100 (PQ)
- Color Range: Full
- HDR Nominal Peak Level: 1000 nits
- Game capture RBG10A2 Color Space: Rec. 2100 (PQ)
The capture: https://youtu.be/ERsDzk4bJts
The info of the recording: https://imgur.com/pOPq7o4
- Color primaries: ITU-R BT.2020
- Color transfer function: SMPTE ST2084 (PQ)
- Color Space: ITU-R BT.2020 Range
- Also includes the max luminescence data
From this, its obvious that ReLive just doesnt try to record HDR properly at all. The fact that I was able to get HDR to record with OBS very easily hopefully shows that this might be an easy fix.
