+1 pleaaaase!!!
I got so excited by this comment. I managed to get the USB firmware update running to move from 3.11.* to 3.21.9. Yet I still cannot manage to get it to work. I even remuxed my file from MKV into MP4 to see if it made a difference, but my CX is still showing it as just HDR (not DV).
Using WebOS Plex client version 5.6.1, platform version 5.2.0.
Server is version 4.47.3 on windows 10.
My file is encoded in dvhe07.06.
How do you have things set up? Would love to be able to get this to work!
+1 on MKV support.
@kazaakas I don’t think there is a 100% proven way to remux MKV to MP4, especially with Profile 7 Dolby Vision. I had better results with converting MKV to TS, but playback was really choppy.
+1 !!!
+1 it would be nice to know if it is even possible?
Yes please+1
+1 !!!
+1! Would love to see this. Don’t want to have to get an Nvidia Shield
+1 also, exactly same thing. Found out .mkv can hold DV but now LG tv app of plex doesn’t support it. Please update, as above, don’t want to spend on nvidia shield.
+1 please!
+1 please!
+1 yes please!
Same here. Really wish it would be possible to let plex play Dolby Vision Blu Rays on LG TV’s. Got Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and it kinda bunks me, that while I do have an LG Tv, it does not play the files in DV. Which I guess is because of the DV profile and stuff like that but hopefully they can fix it/make it possible. I mean it’s not like someone’s live is depending on it but stil, it would be nice to see that.
The current state of MKVs with DV is weird
- It is not properly engaged in Plex on LG TVs
- It is not properly engaged in the native video player on LG TVs from USB storage
- It is not properly engaged in Plex on PS5
- It is not properly engaged when casting to a Chromecast Ultra (CCU supports DV but Google does not specify containers for Direct Play)
- It is, however, properly engaged when using Plex on a FireTV 4k (though FireTV locks colour output to 8bit for some reason)
Would be great to see this added across the board. At least I can fall back to my FireTV but not all people have so many options lol
DV MKV support depends on the device being updated for one of the recent (well it’s only recentish at this point) MKV specs that has DV support.
If anyone’s best buds with an LG engineer… now’s the time to speak up!
webOS DV MKV support (which includes support for the necessary DV profiles) would most certainly have an impact on DV licensing. In other words, LG would most likely have to sign an additional licensing agreement with Dolby and pay money for it.
I’ll leave it to you to figure out how likely that is to happen.
Are you saying that their license is specifically only for MP4s?
No, MP4 is a container and not a DV profile.
Which profiles can be used and what a DV decoder supports on an end device (the TV in our case) is decided by Dolby and the license terms.
And this in turn can have a decisive impact on which containers work with which DV profiles and which do not.
I.e. even if the webOS decoders would support MKVs with Dolby Vision streams, it would probably limited to DV profile 5 as used by the common streaming services.
In any case, it’s something that the platform’s decoders need to support - so it’s something that LG would need to implement, not Plex. Unless Plex finds a way to integrate their own video decoders into the webOS client.
I’m not understanding the link between the license and the container, it seems contradictory to me that you say that only the profiles are licensable but also that the license determines which containers will work (presumably indirectly, but I don’t even see the indirect link).
WebOS already decodes profiles 5 and 8 in MP4, these profiles are already licensed to LG. I think there’s 1 LG TV which will decode profile 7 as well (C9?). All 3 profiles have been supported in MKV for what’s coming up to a year now.
So is there any licensing change required for LG to add P5 and P8 support from MKV containers or just a software update?
container support = LG
DV decoder / profile support = Dolby
Container support for DV profiles that aren’t currently supported = licensing issue
So support for MKVs with dvhe.07 (.04/.09 or for any other container) is not going to happen.
MKV support with dvhe.05 or dvhe.08 would theoretically be possible for LG TVs, but LG will most likely not update the decoders capabilities for webOS (it would be a first since years).
If at all, this will be supported with a future webOS version (6.5 / 7.0), but that is still rather unlikely.
No, the C9 doesn’t support dvhe.07.
Nor does any current webOS TV to my knowledge. These streams were once played on the 2020 models, but never really properly and it was also more of an unintentional support as LG removed that ‘feature’ with an update.
Assuming that LG omits the support of the other DV profiles: a firmware update by LG for webOS would be required.
And just to reiterate that and get back to the actual topic: this is not something that can be implemented in Plex.
