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SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR

Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting this now-official protocol.

Merged earlier today was wayland: Add color manager protocol support for the upstream SDL code, this widely-used library that is commonly deployed by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions. The MPV media player now supports using the upstreamed Wayland color management protocol as part of its HDR content handling. Great seeing all of the Wayland color management and HDR bits finally coming together for a nice Linux desktop experience in 2025.

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