Dolby Vision

[sross44 430]

1 minute ago, gmjh123 said:

Yes I have infuse Pro. Emby is set up on infuse directly connected to the server. Emby connect never seems to work for me. I suspect the problem may have been that I had the emby server on my Android phone.(Which is prone to all sorts of sleeping and battery issues even when you tell an app not to sleep) I reported the intermittent black screen for a couple of seconds on an infuse forum and they recommended that I stopped using UPnP and change to something like Emby. But it made no difference.  I've changed the emby server today to be on my (reasonably powerful) onn 4K Pro Android device where the emby server won't sleep as sleep is not an option on devices plugged directly into the mains. So I've yet to see if it helps with this issue. If that makes no difference, then it must just be my internet connection (which is usually a solid 500 MB) suddenly dropping for a couple of seconds for no reason, in which case there's nothing I can do about it other than giving up all attempts at a server, and playing files directly from a USB. 

You really should be running the server on a computer of some sorts or even maybe a shield pro. I wouldn’t recommend any of the above for a server though. The computer can really be any old laptop or pc you have laying around but those will be much better use cases than what you’ve got going on. Personally I’d say the onn 4k pro won’t be sufficient to run Emby but that’s just my thought there. 

[gmjh123 3]

I had an Nvidia shield but wasn't particularly impressed by it, the onn 4K Pro performs pretty much exactly the same, and had a very similar performance and picture quality. The Nvidia shield has 4 GB of RAM, the onn 4K Pro has 3 GB of RAM, and has twice the storage capacity at 32 GB. So there's not a huge difference between the two. If I had an enormous amount of files I might look into using an old PC, but I usually only have about three or four movies and about fifteen TV episodes on the server at any time before I just delete them after I watch them. I think with that sort of setup the onn 4K Pro will perform just as well as an Nvidia shield. My server library is also coming from a 320 GB Drive which is connected to the onn 4k pro, so again there shouldn't be any limitations with that. 

[Oomek 3]

Emby app on Apple TV for me is also playing DV.HDR+ movies in SDR.
Any chance to get this working anytime soon?

[sross44 430]

18 hours ago, Oomek said:

Emby app on Apple TV for me is also playing DV.HDR+ movies in SDR.
Any chance to get this working anytime soon?

Unfortunately this has been a long going issue with the Apple TV app. It's one that we are hoping to eventually get fixed, but a lot of folks use Infuse on Apple TV for media playback especially for 4K DV/HDR content. 

[Oomek 3]

Ok, so can you be perfectly honest now? Is it a licensing issue, or software implementation problems?
If it's the former, I'm more than happy to pay a few pounds extra to get Emby Premiere with Dolby Vision.

[gmjh123 3]

Even if they get Dolby vision, theres still going to be the problem of having no Dolby Atmos

[jalati 0]

 

Emby on Apple TV and iOS does not support Dolby Vision, even when using Infuse with Emby as the backend.

However, adding media to Infuse via an SMB share works on the Apple TV and DV. When Infuse is configured to use Emby as the backend, Dolby Vision passthrough does not work, and the content isn't displayed on the television in DV.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I've tested this on two Apple TVs and two Sony Bravia TVs, both of which support Dolby Vision when using the internal Emby app on Android TV. Both Apple TVs are set up for Dolby Vision and content matching.

 

 

Edited January 11, 2025 by jalati

[sross44 430]

47 minutes ago, jalati said:

 

Emby on Apple TV and iOS does not support Dolby Vision, even when using Infuse with Emby as the backend.

However, adding media to Infuse via an SMB share works on the Apple TV and DV. When Infuse is configured to use Emby as the backend, Dolby Vision passthrough does not work, and the content isn't displayed on the television in DV.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I've tested this on two Apple TVs and two Sony Bravia TVs, both of which support Dolby Vision when using the internal Emby app on Android TV. Both Apple TVs are set up for Dolby Vision and content matching.

 

 

That's a strange one. I have zero problem getting DV to pop up on Infuse. Does HDR show instead or nothing at all? 

[gmjh123 3]

55 minutes ago, jalati said:

 

Emby on Apple TV and iOS does not support Dolby Vision, even when using Infuse with Emby as the backend.

However, adding media to Infuse via an SMB share works on the Apple TV and DV. When Infuse is configured to use Emby as the backend, Dolby Vision passthrough does not work, and the content isn't displayed on the television in DV.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I've tested this on two Apple TVs and two Sony Bravia TVs, both of which support Dolby Vision when using the internal Emby app on Android TV. Both Apple TVs are set up for Dolby Vision and content matching.

 

 

Dolby vision works fine on infuse. 

[jalati 0]

3 hours ago, sross44 said:

That's a strange one. I have zero problem getting DV to pop up on Infuse. Does HDR show instead or nothing at all? 

I get hdr but not dv when using Emby as infuse back end. Very strange. I have reset Apple TV and that would have forced a new version of infuse to download. I also checked that infuse has Dolby vision enabled in its settings which works when adding the smb share. Very strange. Out of ideas at this stage. 

[sross44 430]

15 hours ago, jalati said:

I get hdr but not dv when using Emby as infuse back end. Very strange. I have reset Apple TV and that would have forced a new version of infuse to download. I also checked that infuse has Dolby vision enabled in its settings which works when adding the smb share. Very strange. Out of ideas at this stage. 

There's a few things. Have you tried multiple files? 

Also I would confirm that it's true DV on the files that you're playing. Infuse is really good at weeding things out and showing if it's HDR or DV. Download a dolby vision test file and try that. It's definitely an issue with either infuse settings or the apple tv settings because Infuse has zero problem playing back DV files on Apple TV. Also make sure you're not set to transcode anything etc. 

[jalati 0]

On 12/01/2025 at 08:58, sross44 said:

There's a few things. Have you tried multiple files? 

Also I would confirm that it's true DV on the files that you're playing. Infuse is really good at weeding things out and showing if it's HDR or DV. Download a dolby vision test file and try that. It's definitely an issue with either infuse settings or the apple tv settings because Infuse has zero problem playing back DV files on Apple TV. Also make sure you're not set to transcode anything etc. 

I've confirmed that Infuse *has* a known issue with Emby passing metadata, but to my understanding Emby now has the ability to pass this through, but it hasn't yet been addressed with Infuse, and will be addressed in a future release.

They have assured me that the file still plays as DV and I've verified that this is the case. Infuse will only play profile 5 and 8 as limited by the apple TV and iOS.

So to summarise, Emby app on ATV doesn't play DV at all, Infuse does but on show landing screen will not show DV at this time, the file will still play DV if it's profile 5 or 8.

Infuse thread is here: https://community.firecore.com/t/dolby-vision-titles-from-emby-jellyfin-missing-dv-badge-in-infuse/43857/28

Edited January 13, 2025 by jalati

[sross44 430]

5 hours ago, jalati said:

I've confirmed that Infuse *has* a known issue with Emby passing metadata, but to my understanding Emby now has the ability to pass this through, but it hasn't yet been addressed with Infuse, and will be addressed in a future release.

They have assured me that the file still plays as DV and I've verified that this is the case. Infuse will only play profile 5 and 8 as limited by the apple TV and iOS.

So to summarise, Emby app on ATV doesn't play DV at all, Infuse does but on show landing screen will not show DV at this time, the file will still play DV if it's profile 5 or 8.

Infuse thread is here: https://community.firecore.com/t/dolby-vision-titles-from-emby-jellyfin-missing-dv-badge-in-infuse/43857/28

Interestingly enough... I have a few files that fall outside of that scope that will play and show DV. Hmmm... hopefully Infuse addresses this pretty quickly though. Because I would have to assume it's the situation for other media servers as well when using Infuse as a front end. 

[jalati 0]

4 hours ago, sross44 said:

Interestingly enough... I have a few files that fall outside of that scope that will play and show DV. Hmmm... hopefully Infuse addresses this pretty quickly though. Because I would have to assume it's the situation for other media servers as well when using Infuse as a front end. 

Plex is fine. Jellyfin and Emby suffer from this issue. I cannot get dv profile 7 to play with infuse but it does work on android tv on my Sony Bravia via Emby app, but then I lose truehd and dts ma, sigh. 

I don’t run the atv on dv by default (even though Apple sets this as the recommended default) I use sdr and have content matching on for dynamic range and frame rate. 

[sross44 430]

45 minutes ago, jalati said:

Plex is fine. Jellyfin and Emby suffer from this issue. I cannot get dv profile 7 to play with infuse but it does work on android tv on my Sony Bravia via Emby app, but then I lose truehd and dts ma, sigh. 

I don’t run the atv on dv by default (even though Apple sets this as the recommended default) I use sdr and have content matching on for dynamic range and frame rate. 

Plex is fine through Infuse? Or just the direct Plex app? Are these DV7 files direct rips of yours or remuxes? 

The way you have the settings is correct though... 

[jalati 0]

13 hours ago, sross44 said:

Plex is fine through Infuse? Or just the direct Plex app? Are these DV7 files direct rips of yours or remuxes? 

The way you have the settings is correct though... 

Yeah when you use Infuse with Plex as back end the DV label is there. Plex of course works on it's own also via it's own app. These DV7 are my Blu Ray Remux rips of the extended editions of LOTR and the Hobbit. These use DV FEL 7.6 which i can only get working when i use the Emby Android TV app on the Sony Android TV OS, though the TrueHD 7.1 sound track doesn't get passed through unfortunately.

[erikf 0]

Plex is NOT fine for me, that's why I'm here checking out Emby. Officially Plex should play DV on ATV, but there are severe stuttering issues which make it basically unusable.

So my business as a customer is up for grabs here. Honestly I would prefer to switch to Emby for various other issues I'm also not happy with Plex about, but reliably playing DV files is the most important thing.

And yes I know about Infuse but that isn't a complete solution either.  

Edited January 17, 2025 by erikf

[gmjh123 3]

12 minutes ago, erikf said:

Plex is NOT fine for me, that's why I'm here checking out Emby. Officially Plex should play DV on ATV, but there is severe stuttering issues which make it basically unusable.

So my business as a customer is up for grabs here. Honestly I would prefer to switch to Emby for various other issues I'm also not happy with Plex about, but reliably playing DV files is the most important thing.

And yes I know about Infuse but that isn't a complete solution either.  

I don't have any stuttering issues with Plex. Have you tried turning on frame rate matching, or turning it off on the Plex settings?

[bakes82 167]

On 1/17/2025 at 5:28 PM, erikf said:

Plex is NOT fine for me, that's why I'm here checking out Emby. Officially Plex should play DV on ATV, but there are severe stuttering issues which make it basically unusable.

So my business as a customer is up for grabs here. Honestly I would prefer to switch to Emby for various other issues I'm also not happy with Plex about, but reliably playing DV files is the most important thing.

And yes I know about Infuse but that isn't a complete solution either.  

Emby on appleTv is a horrible experience, plex works, works even better with infuse.

[Schrotty74 3]

I use now Emby on my Apple TV 4K last Gen and DV or HDR not work.Is this a bad joke? We have 2025 and Emby can not play this Videos. Plex can play, Infus can play but Emby not.

[booboos 5]

This is an Apple TV issue not an Emby issue. 

[Lazarus_Long 80]

1 hour ago, booboos said:

This is an Apple TV issue not an Emby issue. 

Wrong!  Channels DVR, Infuse and Plex apps can play Dolby Vision content.  I have used all 3 - and in the last month.

[booboos 5]

2 minutes ago, swallman said:

Wrong!  Channels DVR, Infuse and Plex apps can play Dolby Vision content.  I have used all 3 - and in the last month.

Emby can play Dolby Vision everywhere else but the Apple TV. Infuse will play it on Apple TV for a subscription fee. Plex won't play Dolby Atmos on the Apple TV. So although you're correct, overall, the problem and many other problems are with the Apple TV. 

[Lazarus_Long 80]

1 minute ago, booboos said:

Emby can play Dolby Vision everywhere else but the Apple TV. Infuse will play it on Apple TV for a subscription fee. Plex won't play Dolby Atmos on the Apple TV. So although you're correct, overall, the problem and many other problems are with the Apple TV. 

But this post is specifically about Dolby Vision - and I honestly care more about the video than the audio (I don't have a fancy sound system).

You are correct about Dolby Atmos, but I'm OK with that issue as I know it's inherent to Apple TV.  It shouldn't take a huge amount of resources to resolve the issue with DV though (unless it's a licensing issue, but we've asked that and Emby folks haven't responded).