Problems playing dolby vision HDR from iPhone13 pro

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I have a LG CX OLED and Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 and when playing DV HDR videos taken from my iPhone13 PRO, it doesn’t play correctly. If I keep trying to play the same video file over and over again it will either:

  • Loop forever and never load. The dashboard doesn’t even show it playing when it’s doing this as if the file just can’t load.
  • Loop then give an “unable to play media” error
  • Play the file in SDR where the file is all washed out and gray
  • Play the file properly in DV

I can get all of these to happen if I just play the file over and over again. It’ll randomly do one of the above.

The dashboard says that it’s direct playing both the video and audio.

I tried removing the audio from the file just to see what would happen and the file plays fine when it does that. Not sure why this makes it better.

Any ideas?

Here’s the file info:

Codec HEVC
Bitrate 82780 kbps
D O V I B L Compat I D 4
D O V I B L Present true
D O V I Level 10
D O V I Present true
D O V I Profile 8
D O V I R P U Present true
D O V I Version 1.0
Bit Depth 10
Chroma Location left
Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
Codec ID hvc1
Coded Height 2160
Coded Width 3840
Color Primaries bt2020
Color Range tv
Color Space bt2020nc
Color Trc arib-std-b67
Frame Rate 59.963 fps
Height 2160
Level 5.1
Profile main 10
Ref Frames 1
Stream Identifier 1
Width 3840
Display Title 4K DoVi/HLG (HEVC Main 10)
Extended Display Title 4K DoVi/HLG (HEVC Main 10)

Codec AAC
Channels 2
Bitrate 196 kbps
Audio Channel Layout stereo
Profile lc
Sampling Rate 44100 Hz
Stream Identifier 2
Display Title Unknown (AAC Stereo)
Extended Display Title Unknown (AAC Stereo)

Can anyone help with this?

Have you tried remuxing with MKVToolNix? If removing the audio helped, I would think that a remux might fix it.

Still broken and not working. Is the iPhone DV video format just not supported?