I understand the benefits coming from HDR, but some creators use HDR wrong, just to pump up their videos so they look “better”. When watching them in dark room with low screen brightness they blind me, because the screen suddenly gets very bright.
example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeOfAN4NqGk
“Optimize video streaming while on battery” is a MacOS setting that plays HDR content as SDR while on battery. It works exactly how I expect, making those HDR videos watchable when the screen brightness is low. However I can’t use it when plugged in.
I believe there’s a kind of system flag or other way to override this setting even when the MacBook is plugged in. But I do not know how to find that. Maybe some undocumented MacOS API? Maybe some other way to enforce HDR content to be streamed as SDR? Surely there must be a way to do that.
