Kodi supports DV MKV on LG , I’m sure plex could do the same? any update on this?
thanks
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@sa2000 DV on Kodi work ! (I have see by myself)
Why Plex don’t do the saming Things ?
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Why couldn’t LG TVs and other devices that don’t play well be configured to work like a PS5 when dolby vision is detected?
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While the LG WebOs app is pretty terrific, many users can’t directly view their Dolby Vision encoded videos since LG TVs only allow Dolby Vision playback with mp4 files. For Dolby Vision encoded video on non-mp4 files, the app currently either falls back to HDR10 playback (if present on the file), or gives a “color space” error.
I propose a toggle option be added to Direct Stream (i.e. live remux) Dolby Vision files contained in non-mp4 files to mp4. The proposed fix would allow more users to see their Dolby Vision videos on their LG TVs, would not be computationally burdensome on most Plex servers and (I imagine) wouldn’t be a difficult implementation. Thanks!
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The conversion to mp4 is not simple unfortunately. There are different DV profiles (profile 7 / 8), differences whether it is FEL or MEL etc. There are scripts out there to ease the process but even they are not without fault and manual intervention is sometimes required (wrong audio track not being kept etc).
The reality is that the popular format for DV is mkv but I also expect further changes to be coming at some point in terms of HDR.
The easy answer is to buy something like the Shield and while it plays the latter with no issues, I have noticed SDR content to look better when playing on the LG itself.
I have resorted to using the scripts for now.
JELLYFIN plays DV files as DV. The same files only play HDR when using PLEX on my LG TV.
So I’m not convinced it’s the TV’s fault.
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Jellyfin remuxes video and audio streams into HLS on-the-fly with the added Dolby Vision tag.
It becomes CPU intensive when the bit rate is high as it has to copy the video and audio to the transcode folder. Plex should do the same.
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