: This uses your device's built-in media engine. If your smartphone or TV screen supports HDR10 or Dolby Vision, the HW decoder passes the HDR signal directly to the display, which handles the processing.

Your smartphone or TV screen must physically support HDR10, HDR10+, or Dolby Vision.

Download a test file like “Samsung HDR10 Wonderland.ts” (available on community forums). Play it in MX Player while observing your screen’s HDR notification (e.g., Vizio TVs show “HDR10,” Samsung shows “HDR”). If the notification appears, success.

Casting HDR content from MX Player to a non-HDR TV? Your phone will tonemap (poorly). Casting to an HDR TV? Often fails because the casting protocol re-encodes to SDR.

This article explores the mechanics of MX Player’s HDR support, how to ensure it works, and troubleshooting steps for when HDR playback fails. How MX Player HDR Support Works: The Technical Breakdown

Don’t expect dynamic tone mapping or advanced subtitle rendering for HDR. For that, open-source projects like mpv-android will remain superior.

If your hardware supports HDR but your videos still look incorrect, follow these steps to optimize MX Player for HDR content.

MX Player dropped native support for certain audio and video codecs due to licensing issues (such as TrueHD, DTS, and certain Dolby profiles). If your HDR video file uses an unsupported audio or video track, the player may automatically drop back to the SW decoder, instantly breaking the HDR video playback. Incompatible Video Formats