Dolby Vision on Apple TV

[alex77777 16]

14 hours ago, NiceMarmut said:

I've been waiting for this feature for at least 6 months, if not more. I'm beyond excited, it's the final feature I've been waiting for.

@LukeI hope you'll consider changing the profile/playback defaults, or something to get proper HDR/DV playback. I've never seen those playback options, and would not have thought to look for them there, nor would I have known how it affects HDR/DV. 

I just happened to stumble upon the settings by accident. It would be nice to have an option to only disable these setting depending on the content that is being viewed. Disabling changing of container formats can cause some issue. The only one I've noticed is closed captioning on Live TV not working with it off. I would like to see the option to disable/enable user settings depending on what the content is. Such as, if Dolby Vision is being viewed you can have a different set of user settings and other set of settings for HDR and SDR content. I would go a step further and give the option to specify the file format {MKV, MP4, etc) for when the user has permissions to transcode or change container format. Hopefully I explained that well. 

[alex77777 16]

Ive created a feature request for them to expand on these settings.

 

[GlowingBits 1]

5 hours ago, alex77777 said:

Ive created a feature request for them to expand on these settings.

I'm new to Emby (but a long time Plex and Jellyfin user) and haven't tried the "hack" yet, but really it shouldn't be on the user to determine the proper settings (container format, etc) for proper HDR or DolbyVision passthrough IMO.  Especially when some of those settings which will definitely affect other clients and scenarios.  If hooked to an HDR and/or DV compatible display then it should do what is necessary per that client and display type (passthrough, tone mapping, transcode audio, etc).  That's not to trivialize what might be needed, as Plex has struggled with this (and many other) issues for a looooong time, which are only recently being resolved in a long overdue beta -- that I doubt will see the App Store for a while.  But as many know, Infuse is proof it is possible.  I'm really liking much of Emby at this point, but am a little disappointed in the Apple TV client vs iOS and others.  Hoping that changes. 

[alex77777 16]

18 hours ago, GlowingBits said:

I'm new to Emby (but a long time Plex and Jellyfin user) and haven't tried the "hack" yet, but really it shouldn't be on the user to determine the proper settings (container format, etc) for proper HDR or DolbyVision passthrough IMO.  Especially when some of those settings which will definitely affect other clients and scenarios.  If hooked to an HDR and/or DV compatible display then it should do what is necessary per that client and display type (passthrough, tone mapping, transcode audio, etc).  That's not to trivialize what might be needed, as Plex has struggled with this (and many other) issues for a looooong time, which are only recently being resolved in a long overdue beta -- that I doubt will see the App Store for a while.  But as many know, Infuse is proof it is possible.  I'm really liking much of Emby at this point, but am a little disappointed in the Apple TV client vs iOS and others.  Hoping that changes. 

Good news! It looks like the developers are going to try to change the Apple TV Emby app so it no longer unnecessarily remuxes/converts the stream . This would allow proper Dolby Visions playback without having to mess with user permissions. 

[Natelanxon 27]

1 hour ago, alex77777 said:

Good news! It looks like the developers are going to try to change the Apple TV Emby app so it no longer unnecessarily remuxes/converts the stream . This would allow proper Dolby Visions playback without having to mess with user permissions. 

That would be incredible!