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

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.

No worries :slight_smile:

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:

Now they can start working also on ExoPlayer:

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@ 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.

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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

Correct. It’s hard to do something without a sample or reference point :sweat_smile:

To be clear: that just means we can then look at it, not that it’ll be something that will become immediately available or prioritised over other things

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I came here to request the same thing. You have my vote!

Voted!

MakeMKV 1.15.2 was released today with the new DV MKV spec.

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So weird that they didn’t state the new DV support specifically in the release notes. I wonder why they didn’t put that in? I realize it’s implied, but if users didn’t know DV support was added to the latest Matroska update, they’d be in the dark.

Revision history

  • MakeMKV v1.15.2 (20.7.2020 )

  • Massive internal rewrite, some improvements and small bugfixes

  • Muxer updated to the latest matroska specification

  • Advanced usage changes:

    • Sdftool included as standalone executable
    • Drive speed control option

Officially on MakeMKV’s forums:

1.15.2 Implements the latest method for storing DV metadata (per new spec) and has a fix for invalid layer id (spotted by yusesope). In theory, this should be a ā€œfinal workingā€ version. Let’s see if other tools will pick it up…

^^ @PLEX ENGINEERS - LET’S DO THIS ^^

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Just as weird as the 1.15.1 release notes not stating support for non-standards compliant DV support.

We already have ripped a sample but there are quite a few layers that need support to work with this.

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This is very disheartening to hear. :frowning:

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If we rip a DV disc now, what app can we use to see that DV was actually added? VLC maybe? Plex can’t see it yet of course, but how can we verify that the DV is actually there?

At this time there is no direct way to verify the MKV itself as nothing supports the new standard aside from MakeMKV. We are waiting for MediaInfo to get updated.

That said, the MKV can be dropped into a special version of tsMuxer and it will create a DV compliant transport stream. The TS file can be played back on an Nvidia Shield TV (2019) via Plex.

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Awesome, thanks!