Now that Plex tone mapping has been around for awhile, any word on when it will start working with content in Dolby Vision? Emby already has this working so scratching my head as to why it’s not in Plex
because we are not licensed to transcode DV. When Dolby allows it we happily will. It has nothing to do with paying Dolby or anything like that.
I have no idea what Emby etc does whatever they do.
@BigWheel Thanks for the quick response! If it has nothing to do with “paying Dolby or anything like that”, but requires a “license”…what does that entail? Just wondering if this is like a formal request approval, etc to gauge if this is coming soon…or years in the future.
I don’t have insight in the reasons Dolby wants or does not want to do things. Just telling you what I was told in the past. If i find out more info I will let you know
Thanks again. I’m sure many others would like to see this happen as well. Also, since I have your ear…any word on when support for multiple cuts of same movie will actually come?
Sometime in August I think but don’t quote me. I can tell you they will be called “Editions”, as opposed to “versions” which are just different file level aspects ( resolutions, Codec) of same edition
As long as there is a way to differentiate the “editions”…i.e. Extended Cut, Directors Cut, appropriately, thats what the community has been asking for (12 yrs). Between you and I, whoever thought it would be good to differentiate versions based only on resolution was certainly not thinking ahead.
They were thinking just fine IMO besides Bladerunner most folks didn’t care much about editions, since there was only two (Directors/Theatrical) most of the time, until there were four thousand editions of The Lord of the Rings.
@BigWheel Just noticed that if I play a Dolby Vision movie on my iPad using Plex, it will NOT tone map. But if I play that same Dolby Vision movie on my android cell phone using Plex, it DOES tone map (works on my Shield TV Pro as well). As you indicated 2 days ago, if Plex is “not licensed to transcode DV” then how is that working on an android device and not iOS? Thanks again for any input you can provide.
Thats because Apple supports DV whereas your android doesn’t (eg Samsung only supports HDR10+).
And it depends on the DV profiles…
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