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I tried Windows version and HDR playback some time ago and was also surprised with its SDR/HDR switching behavior.
Not sure why, but I encountered a situation where after exiting Kodi, Windows was in HDR mode (while originally HDR was off when starting Kodi)
Maybe it was because of not proper exit during HDR playback, not really sure why it happened, but it was annoying to have Windows switched to HDR mode until I ran kodi again and played HDR video and stopped it.
I agree with MuonGold that options to start / exit Kodi in mode user expects would be very welcomed addition to Kodi.
Something like:
When starting Kodi set Windows HD color mode to: Keep Windows settings / HDR on / HDR off
When exiting Kodi set Windows HD color mode to: Use HDR mode detected on Kodi startup / HDR on / HDR off
This would pretty much handle every scenario possible.
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I've given this more thought. I suppose right or wrong it should always be a users choice. Kodi should return to the desktop as it found it regardless if a video was played.
Currently, with Windows HDR engaged, the Kodi GUI presents incorrectly understanding some users don't care. I would hope if this was implemented, SDR vs HDR mode for SDR would continue to be metadata selected automatically and not play SDR in HDR mode. The current behavior is to automatically correct from HDR mode to SDR mode when SDR video starts. If that was retained I see no real problem exiting any video and/or quitting Kodi and switching the display to HDR because it is the users choice.
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A bit more info on this. In my case I have 4 monitors. I often turn off some displays to save energy using the physical "off" button on the monitor or via another cool app called UltraMon. Only the top LG C1 display 4 is HDR capable, the others are Samsung ips panels. I found AutoActions and Kodi often confuse, or Windows is incorrectly reporting, the monitor numbers. Windows still see's all the display devices, they just appear small in display settings if they are off. Depending on which is on or off, Kodi decides to open on the top monitor, other times, the bottom, sometimes the right or left even and remembers sometimes the wrong monitor so I'm often having to move Kodi around in it's settings. Obviously this is a new can of worms but does have some relevance to the temporary solution. Really depends on the state the monitors are in when waking from sleep or at startup. In any event, AutoActions wasn't turning HDR on all the time on the top monitor when I close Kodi. Sometimes it decided to turn HDR on for display 3 or 2 or 1, even though Kodi was actually displaying on the LG display. Basically, both Kodi and AutoActions were confused as to which monitor was which. To resolve, setting AutoActions to flip HDR on for all monitors when Kodi closes was needed. This works because the top monitor is the only HDR capable display, the other displays simply ignore the HDR request. Again, completely new can of worms but is significant in my case for the AutoActions workaround.
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Just experiencing this problem myself.
Regardless of the reason why, I would expect Kodi to respect my Windows configuration.