Dolby Vision support for Plex Media Player for Windows

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I just bought a lovely LG OLED65GX, but now I have my HTPC sitting at waiting for Dolby Vision support for Plex Media Player.

When do you Plex people plan to add support for it? :sob:

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Development of Plex Media Player has been suspended. There won’t be no new features added. It will only “kept running” with its current feature set.

Try using the Plex client which is available natively on the LG set.

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So neither “Plex for Windows” nor the Plex addon for Kodi (under Windows) will ever do the job?

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“Plex Media Player” and “Plex for Windows” are different things.

I don’t know if the Plex add-on for Kodi will get an update. I hear someone is working on making it Kodi 19-compatible first.

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That’s why I was wondering. :slight_smile:

Thanks will do some search now and then to see if there’s any news about Dolby Vision support for Windows computers.

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When you say “Dolby Vision support”, what exactly do you mean?
Do you mean the ability to pass-through the DV metadata to the display (which then itself has to be DV-compatible)?
Or do you mean the ability to perform Tone Mapping from a DV-file to a regular SDR display?
The latter will not really be possible.

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This. :slight_smile:

Straight DV content going from the Plex server in my NAS to the (compliant) TV works perfectly.

When doing the same from the PC only HDR stuff is working.

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I somewhere saw a “Dolby Vision”-enabler app in the MS app store. It said that it’ll only work if the whole device has been certified by Dolby.
Something tells me that this will exclude practically every desktop compter that allows you to plug in a GPU card.

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I confirm that it was a completely useless purchase for me (as for many others I imagine
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It’s the HEVC codec license you need to buy from the Microsoft Store.

I hope someone will come up with a solution soon because allowing DV to work on Android and NVIDIA Shield and not on a (powerfull enough) computer is really ridiculous.

Thanks for replying and clearing things out to me. :slight_smile:

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Any progress on this?

I too am looking for a Plex player for Windows 10 that supports sending Dolby Vision to a DV certified TV. I would think many others, especially those with powerful gaming graphics cards, would appreciate this functionality. It could also be a good selling feature since there doesn’t seem to be any software players for Win10 that support Dolby Vision (yet).

Does Win10 have some kind of Dolby Vision technical limitation that’s making this problematic? Licensing perhaps?

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2022 clean-up: obsolete (PMP is no longer officially supported)