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Taking screenshots without color profiles, or as SRGB? #4751

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For audio/video support IINA uses a library from the mpv project. It is mpv that generates the screenshot.

The mpv manual entry for the screenshot-tag-colorspace option says:

--screenshot-tag-colorspace=<yes|no>
Tag screenshots with the appropriate colorspace (default: yes).

Note that not all formats support this. When it is unsupported, or when this option is disabled, screenshots will be converted to sRGB before being written.

Possibly setting this option to no will do what you want. However there currently is a gotcha with doing this. IINA will set this option to yes when HDR mode is enabled stepping on any user provided setting.

Follow these instructions to test setting this mpv opt…

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