Hi, Currently, Plex on Nvidia Shield 2019 is able to play single layer Dolby Vision on .mp4 and .ts files. Recently, a method has been discovered which allows to get that into a MKV container as well with the codec MpegH HEVC Main10@L5.1 (dvhe.07.06 BL+EL+RPU FEL). Is there any chance to add suppor…

ExoPlayer doesn’t matter one bit here. What matters is FFmpeg.

Yea i heard :slight_smile: - because you don’t use Exoplayer for demuxing! Glad to hear you are working on it internally :wink:

Don’t take the fact that I’m responding here to mean that we are working on it. I don’t work on any of the clients. I was just watching the MKV spec changes and thought that those here needed to be informed of the implications.

I’m hoping we can remux into the new standard mkvs or something to make mkvs already obtained usable for DV.

Some good news :slight_smile: Add AVC and HEVC codec mappings with BlockAdditionMapping 2 ietf-wg-cellar:master ← MediaArea:AVC_and_HEVC_BlockAddition2 opened 08:16AM - 26 May 20 UTC (UTC) …

@ ariela_nesys_it - how is this good news? I don’t understand what any of that stuff means, but admittedly - I’m a layman when it comes to github. Also, who is that person?

It means it’s now a defined MKV standard, which means Google may incorporate it into ExoPlayer, which means Plex may eventually have it in their software. I wouldn’t expect it any time soon.

Ah. Well that’s sobering. Here’s hoping by 2021 at any rate! Lol

As a Plex engineer was involved in the discussion of the specification, i would expect that we would see it sooner than later. Right now i think that most people are waiting for MakeMKV and the likes to be ready so there is test material to work with

[FEATURE REQUEST] Dolby Vision support for MKV [IMPLEMENTED]

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Some good news

Now they can start working also on ExoPlayer:

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[FEATURE REQUEST] Dolby Vision support for MKV [IMPLEMENTED]

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