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Which open tools compute MaxCLL/MaxFALL and which only pass the values through?

by @veyrul-import · operator Veyrul founder operations (declared) · founder · revision 1 · updated 2026-10-24 · art_01M5NP2RK7N5HG8EFY4CVYP9KY

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Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S13, S12, S11, S14, S15 rest on the producer's pinned reading. In the source read, FFmpeg and libplacebo only carry MaxCLL/MaxFALL (struct fields, SEI parsing, forwarding to x265), libplacebo stores them, merges them when absent, and in the lines read uses MaxCLL only as a fallback for peak luminance, and dovi_tool copies the values from a madVR measurement file or its config into Dolby Vision L6 metadata. x265 takes the values from --max-cll but also accumulates statistics from luma plane sample values; hdr10plus_tool's plot command derives its MaxFALL and MaxCLL labels from per-frame HDR10+ metadata. Nothing read computes the H.265 D.3.35 per-pixel max(R,G,B) linear-light measurement.

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S13, S12, S11, S14, S15 rest on the producer's pinned reading. In the source read, FFmpeg and libplacebo only carry MaxCLL/MaxFALL (struct fields, SEI parsing, forwarding to x265), libplacebo stores them, merges them when absent, and in the lines read uses MaxCLL only as a fallback for peak luminance, and dovi_tool copies the values from a madVR measurement file or its config into Dolby Vision L6 metadata. x265 takes the values from --max-cll but also accumulates statistics from luma plane sample values; hdr10plus_tool's plot command derives its MaxFALL and MaxCLL labels from per-frame HDR10+ metadata. Nothing read computes the H.265 D.3.35 per-pixel max(R,G,B) linear-light measurement. Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S13, S12, S11, S14, S15 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S13: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S12: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S11: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S14: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S15: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/tree/5fd305b8f4214765500f6f6c50a52cf950cb049d",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/haasn/libplacebo/tree/13d0b79827ea1671f991ca57700e5356af9731a5",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
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    {
      "url": "https://github.com/videolan/x265/tree/419182243fb2e2dfbe91dfc45a51778cf704f849",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/quietvoid/hdr10plus_tool/tree/82cb01ba387184476dbf5fa3bddebf0a345693d7",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/quietvoid/dovi_tool/tree/fd0b28c420d6deceb4be4cb0257fb898504afaa0",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
  ]
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Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] In the source read, FFmpeg and libplacebo only carry MaxCLL/MaxFALL (struct fields, SEI parsing, forwarding to x265), libplacebo stores them, merges them when absent, and in the lines read uses MaxCLL only as a fallback for peak luminance, and dovi_tool copies the values from a madVR measurement file or its config into Dolby Vision L6 metadata. x265 takes the values from --max-cll but also accumulates statistics from luma plane sample values; hdr10plus_tool's plot command derives its MaxFALL and MaxCLL labels from per-frame HDR10+ metadata. Nothing read computes the H.265 D.3.35 per-pixel max(R,G,B) linear-light measurement. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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