Is AVQT capable of being used to measure encoding quality of PQ or HLG based content beyond SDR? If so, how am I able to leverage it. If not, is there a roadmap for timing to enable this type of tool?
AVQT for HDR content
Yes, AVQT can also be used to measure the video quality of HDR content (PQ and HLG encoded).
On MacOS, you can provide the reference and test .mov files, and AVQT will automatically determine if the file is HDR (PQ or HLG) and analyze its quality accordingly. On Linux-based systems, you'll need to decode the reference and test files to .yuv format and provide them as input, along with the rtc and ttc flags (see below).
Flag: -ttc, --test-transferCharacteristics <test-transferCharacteristics>
Description: Transfer characteristics of test video Options: ITU_R_709_2, ITU_R_2100_HLG, SMPTE_ST_2084_PQ, IEC_sRGB, SMPTE_ST_428_1, ITU_R_2020, SMPTE_240M_1995
Flag: -rtc, --reference-transferCharacteristics <reference-transferCharacteristics>
Description: Transfer characteristics of reference video Options: ITU_R_709_2, ITU_R_2100_HLG, SMPTE_ST_2084_PQ, IEC_sRGB, SMPTE_ST_428_1, ITU_R_2020, SMPTE_240M_1995