Plex Server: 1.22.0.4163 App Version: 7.14.1 Hey there On some/most DolbyVision clips Plex displays “wrong” colours. Using the Tv’s Plex App the colours look right. Using TV+ on aTV shows correct colours as well, it is just the plex atv client. This clip here: https://www.demolandia.net/downloa…

I am having the same issue. I short video in Dolby vision on my iPhone 12 Pro Max, and Plex in Apple TV 4K is blowing out the colors unless I force it to convert/transcode automatically to standard color mode. Yet when I Airplay this same content from my iPhone to Apple TV 4K it displays in Dolby v…

Hey, it’s us again. We know this is not your responsibility and we do appreciate your effort but can you please ask the team-lead of the aTV dev team to make a statement, either here or to you with some concrete information, a plan moving forward and a tentative timeline. “We are aware of the issu…

Agreed. With how common Dolby Vision is now it’s leaning towards being a necessity in day-to-day performance.

What bugs me the most is knowing that the hardware is capable of it.

It was me who poked Elan on Twitter about this issue to try and get something moving. However, I’m not up on the technicalities, so I have asked Nekno to respond. All I know is that the problem files on Plex play fine on Infuse, so it’s not a hardware issue, but rather a player issue.

Oh! Can Plex on AppleTV correctly display files with DV Profile 7? I thought the AppleTV was only supporting Profile 5.

Ah yes, I see. So in this case it’s actually displaying HDR10, not Dolby Vision. So like I thought, DV profile 7 isn’t possible with the Apple TV, but it will correctly fallback to HDR10. So the only Dolby Vision fully supported by the AppleTV is Profile 5, which right now is broken when using the …

Plex displays wrong colours with Dolby Vision on AppleTV 4k

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Ridley September 16, 2021, 8:13pm 133

I think people might be confusing multiple different issues here. Content using Profile 7 (the Blu-Ray profile) should display fine, but content using Profile 5 (sometimes used in web streaming) will not. When +1ing this, please make sure to include a sample file, and note which profile it is.

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Plex displays wrong colours with Dolby Vision on AppleTV 4k

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