Implementing high dynamic range display technology in a remote desktop environment

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• obtaining, at a video driver of a remote desktop server, an encoder indicator from a remote access protocol stack of a terminal service in the remote desktop server, the encoder indicator including an indication of a high dynamic range (HDR) video encoder to use for graphical data encoding;
• instantiating the HDR video encoder in association with a video encoding manager in communication with the video driver via an encoding interface;
• obtaining, at the video driver, HDR graphical data for presenting in association with a remote desktop client device, the HDR graphical data including a graphical surface where each pixel is represented using at least eight bytes of data in accordance with a virtual monitor established in association with monitor configuration data corresponding with an HDR monitor;
• providing the HDR graphical data to the HDR video encoder, logically separated from the video driver via an encoding interface, for encoding the HDR graphical data in association with the monitor configuration data corresponding with the HDR monitor;
• and
• providing the encoded HDR graphical data to the remote access protocol stack of the terminal service for transmitting the encoded HDR graphical data to the remote desktop client device having the HDR monitor.

One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:

• obtaining, at a video driver of a remote desktop server, monitor configuration data corresponding with a high dynamic range (HDR) monitor associated with a remote desktop client device;
• using the monitor configuration data to configure a virtual monitor corresponding with the HDR monitor;
• obtaining, at a video driver of a remote desktop server, HDR graphical data rendered using the virtual monitor for presenting in association with the remote desktop client device, the HDR graphical data including a graphical surface where each pixel is represented using at least eight bytes of data in accordance with the virtual monitor established in association with the monitor configuration data corresponding with the HDR monitor;
• providing the HDR graphical data to an HDR video encoder, logically separated from the video driver via an encoding interface, based on an encoding indicator to use the HDR video encoder, of a plurality of video encoders to perform encoding;
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• encoding, via the HDR video encoder, the HDR graphical data in accordance with the monitor configuration data.