I would add I’d like to see separate indicators for each video stream. Dual layer should show HDR10 and DV, Single layer HDR10 or DV should only show that, etc.
Because of the dual layer limitations, lots of people have been making single layer DV files that won’t play on HDR10-only devices. Definitely need to differentiate the options in the file between one or the other or both. And obviously as further support for different HDR implementations comes down the pipeline, we’ll need to see that as well so thinking ahead for that makes sense.
Just throwing my vote in here, too. Currently, in AndroidTV and PlexWeb, it doesn’t even show HDR anymore for Dolby Vision content. We clearly need a DV indicator and I don’t understand why this still isn’t a thing.
I see that some movies with DV are beeing labled as HDR, some others only 4k. I can confirm this.
However, the majority is “correctly” labled as 4kHDR.
From a technical view, I cannot imagine that this feature is difficult to implement since mediainfo is able to detect DV (in mkvs) since more than a half year (or even longer).
However, I remember that someone stated somewhere that terms like “Dolby Atmos” and “DTS:X” etc. (and of corse “Dolby Vision”) are trademarks… supposing this is true, Plex developers will never implement this.
But as I said, I am only speculating. Please ask one of the devs…
P7 alone specifically should be labeled 4K UHD DV to let it be known that’s the better quality one (generally speaking for sake of argument, not getting into what bitrate your files are at), P4 and P8 are still streaming/STB quality formats (you can turn your P7 files into P8 files though if need be) before everyone started just using P5 for streaming/STB (again, generally) IIRQ
Edit: but I suggest Plex just display the DV profile # next to the resolution (4K DV7) for example - this way just a single number change can signify the person looking at it (they’re the only ones who are gonna know what it’s for anyway) playback capabilities - instead of 2 or 3 different naming schemes - and gets even more specific, again for those who would need it at a glance
P5 has a better color space. And Dolby is, quite oddly, rumored to be discouraging use of FEL for future P7/UHD-BD. (Compatibility reasons, I assume.)
I completely agree that simply displaying the DV Profile and Level would be ideal. Any interpretation in an attempt to “simplify” it will add other confusion.
I agree. As I said, it doesn’t have to name the brand. HDR10 Plus, DV or DoVi. DTS-HD 3D, TrueHD 3D and EAC3D. Everyone would be happy and no right would be violated in my opinion.
A small insight from Plex Employee over on Reddit:
“Let’s just say some logos are not free to add. I’ll leave it at that.”
I’ve suggested that if they couldn’t even use the names without logos (eg. ‘Dolby Vision’, ‘Dolby Atmos’ as plain text), could it be possible to use alternate names like ‘DOL-VIS’ or ‘HDR-DV’, and for audio something like ‘DOL-ATM’ or ‘TrueHD-DOL-ATM’?
The Plex team just doesn’t seem to get it. Nobody wants Dolby or DTS logos or the names written out. We just want a distinction as described several times here.
But Plex doesn’t even manage to properly output EAC3 at 7.1.
Apparently that’s at the bottom of the list for the Plex team. It’s better to redesign the design five times before addressing the technical and in my opinion more important problems.
The inquiries have been around for years and no movement in sight.
I am hoping and taking that wink as in you are implying we are getting more than a tag on the videos. I am really hoping you are implying we are getting DV tone mapping because I was real disappointed when I got a Quadro P4000 and discovered it does not tone map DV only HDR10. I was really hoping I was going to finally be able to not have to separate my 4K HDR content from the rest of my content and have 2 different versions. But at best I would still need to have DV content in its own library. Also hoping that DV mp4 buffering bug is fixed.
The way it is worded sounds like we are going to get more than we asked for. Getting a DV tag is the least of the problems with DV on plex. If you get info in plex on a DV file it already shows it is DV. Plex adding the tag would be extremely trivial which does not make sense why it would be taking this long. Only thing I could think of is some silly licensing issue with the DV name but even then it could still just say HDR like it does for HDR10.
That’s the whole point of the feature request.
To distinguish in the clients if the file is HDR10, HDR10+ or Dolby Vision.
With the additional link in this thread of a similar request for the same with audio.
Nobody has even mentioned tone-mapping here.
Try the couple of months posts here…It will probably be more relevant to you.
