Any more movement on this? (Also making sure this doesn’t get pruned)
News is Apple supports MEL(BL+RPU) in whatever player that passthrough video to it. (Plex, File APP) after some conversion.
Infuse can’t do it, only genuine P5.
https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=123899#p123899
Nearly all my post @sw5163 is regarding MEL on Apple.
Feel free to ask any questions on makemkv forum, but don’t send message to this account. I probably won’t check for a while.
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Any update? I have same issue with mpiva.
Dolby vision have no audio and sometimes out of sync and jumpy between timeline 8:00 -18:00 on my LG C1.
Only movies and shows from apple works with no problem.
I wonder if this problem exist on shield pro user.
Couple significant updates today:
Hi everyone,
any news about Plex (for me on webOS) supporting DV streams as MKV? I can get it to work by converting MKV to MP4 and then stream it.
But a native MKV support would be much appreciated. 
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Could you check this:
Download mp4box.
In the command line type:
mp4box -add “input_video.mp4” -inter 120 “output_video.mp4”
Where input_video.mp4 is the problematic video and output_video.mp4 is the new video file.
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Recently I started to notice green / purple playback with DoVi MKV files on my LG OLED65C9PLA.
I also noticed that the same files play fine on my iPad 6; the server is then transcoding the container from mkv to mp4.
Why can’t Plex trigger the same (mkv to mp4) transcode on my LG TV?
I have the same question. Only Plex Devs know, By default plex do not try to transcode mkv with dolby, it just pass it as is. (On Profile 8 encodes, it works, but you lost Dolby Vision, on profile 5, green tint, since there is no backward compatibility layer). LG Tvs do not support matroska dolby vision encodes, and from my test, they also do not support HLS dolby vision encodes. By default, if transcoding is needed, Plex will convert it to HLS not mp4. IE: When DTS → AC3 transcoding is needed or on previous LG Plex players (or when subtitle image decoding was not supported and subtitle burning was needed). You could check my previous post, of, how to convert a dolby vision matroska into a dolby vision mp4, that plays happy with LG player.
How does one know which profile it is? Is there some sort of way to semi automate this?
First time I’ve ever watched a dovi video on plex on my LG C9, mp4 dovi. Mkvs don’t even trigger dovi, just play sdr with green tint.
I’d like to upgrade what I can to dovi but the workaround on converting mkv seems laborious.
If the source is a streaming service, it is Profile 5.
Look at the Plex Media Info.
Examine the file with MediaInfo.
In Plex Web, if the video is identified as:
4K DoVi (HEVC Main 10) = Dolby Vision only profile
4K HDR10 (HEVC Main 10) = HDR10 only
4K DoVi/HDR10 (HEVC Main 10) = both DV and HDR10
4K HLG (HEVC Main 10) = HLG
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Thank you! Is Profile 8 the next most common one? Probably coming from remuxes?
The disc rips with DV & HDR10 that I have are Profile 7.
As far as I understand, profile 8 is HDR + DolbyVision in one video. From my practice it usually comes from:
- Streaming services (Netflix etc), very often after manual merging HDR video + Profile 5 DoVi video of this same movie (stream). So in the end you get one video file combining HDR version and DoVi version. Then you get DoVi 8
- HDR UHD Bluray remuxes applied with Streaming services DoVi version (5 or 8). So you take regular UHD Bluray remux with HDR track and you apply DoVi layer from a streaming version. As a result you got HDR DoVi 8 “hybrid” remux. UHD Bluray quality (remux or re-encode) with DoVi layer.
The difference to DoVi 7 Bluray remuxes is that there is no EL layer. In reality this is not very crucial, I’m not sure if one can spot the difference between DoVi 7 and DoVi 8 of the same movie (UHD remux). But for sure you can spot the difference between HDR remux and DoVi 8 remux.
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mediainfo is your friend.
The only complexities are:
Profile 7 → Profile 8 (Drop EL Layer, create Profile 8 RPU, and remux H265)
The above can be made with quietvoid dovi_tool [Google is your other friend]
Also, dovi_tool can be used to create a RPU from HDR10+ Content. Basically, you can convert a video that contains HDR10+ metadata into an RPU, and remux the H265 with it. Making the video HDR10+ and Dolby Profile 8 H265. Which means a video that supports both HDR10+ playback and dolby vision playback.
Can someone give me a information, with which profile DV works on a Apple TV?
From my understanding, Apple TV will play Profile 5. IDK about profile 8. Some people say it plays, others that is fake Dolby and only the HDR part is played. Maybe some Apple TV owners can clarify.
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Hmm, this is very curious.
Does this mean the Nvidia Shield is virtually capable of playing back almost all profiles? Including MKVs? If so that’s amazing actually!
Does it also passthrough Atmos etc? I may snag a Shield if that’s the case as that seems to answer my needs!
The Shield cannot properly display DoVi Profile 5 with Plex, it will display Profile 8.
Yes, it does passthrough Atmos and DTS:X.
Not sure where you got that info from!
Shield 2019 Pro plays Profile 5 perfectly fine… I have tons of DoVi Profile 5 content and have never had any issues with any of them… Ever!
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You can’t go to the store and buy any P8 media, so whenever I see Profile 8 I assume it’s a parts-bin mash-up file. Eye of toad, wing of butterfly, tongue of newt. But that also makes me suspicious of any OTHER nearby media … did it start life as P5, or has it been coerced into it?
@Duff3 if you have a P5 file that doesn’t play, can you share the media info and/or a link to a sample?
