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…

I expect Plex will support as soon as the existing MKV will support these new specs … and players will start supporting going forward :wink:

Plex relies on ExoPlayer, as soon ExoPlayer support it, Plex will do too (once they updated to the latest version, of course)

True, but the addition is still simple (we already pretty much got a pull request ready for ExoPlayer if it sticks to the current (yusesope primary, i just helped fixing a bug and doing some clean-up)). The current plan is to move the data from CodecPrivate area and into BlockAdditionMapping. It m…

I know @mandrup I’ve been following all the process from the very begining :wink:

It was a reply to gbooker02 :slight_smile:

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.

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

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gbooker02 May 26, 2020, 1:31pm 41

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

[implemented] UPDATE to latest Exoplayer (android/firetv) --Listen to your customers--

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

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