HDR10 AV1

edge/av1-hdr10.mkvMatroskaEdge case

10-bit HDR AV1 in Matroska, tagged the way HDR10 video is.

How it should play

What a broken player shows

An illustration of the symptom, not a frame from the file.

What goes wrong

The HDR tags are ignored: washed-out, flat colours, or no tone mapping on an SDR screen.

The file

Container: Matroska, 6.008 s
Size: 3.3 MB
Video: AV1, 1920x1080, 30 fps
Audio: Opus, stereo, 48,000 Hz
Expected: plays correctly in any player

How it was verified

Built by the testsrc generator (gen v0.2) and verified with FFmpeg 7.1.5-0+deb13u1 and GStreamer 1.26.2 in snapshot 2026-11-02, before it was published: the file has the property this page describes, and decoding it gives the expected result.

With a token: the file, how exactly it was built, the full fact sheet, and the expected result the checker judges a player against.

Use it

# the public facts
curl https://testsrc.com/v1/cases/edge/av1-hdr10.mkv

# the full fact sheet and the file, with your token
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TESTSRC_TOKEN" \
  https://testsrc.com/v1/cases/edge/av1-hdr10.mkv/facts
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TESTSRC_TOKEN" -o av1-hdr10.mkv \
  https://testsrc.com/v1/files/edge/av1-hdr10.mkv

# play it through your player and check what it showed
testsrc run --player libvlc edge/av1-hdr10.mkv

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HDR10 AV1

What goes wrong

The file

How it was verified

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