MrMC

Looks like the Plex folks are beta testing a version that plays the new DV within MKV supported standard..

https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-reques ... 576028/155

Can anyone talk about the status for MrMC support in this area?

Oh, MediaInfo 20.09 has also been updated to show when DV metadata is present in an MKV container... So there's that..

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

Version 20.09, 2020-10-09
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+ Dolby ED2: full featured support (presentations, presentation targets, beds, objects)
+ MKV: support of Dolby Vision metadata
+ MXF: detection of Dolby E hidden in PCM tracks having more than 2 channels
+ WAV: detection of Dolby E hidden in PCM tracks having more than 2 channels
+ CineForm: display of color space (including Bayer), bit depth
x WAV: more precise sample count
x SMPTE ST 337: catch of streams starting later than usual (probing increased from 4 to 16 PCM "frames")
x PNG: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
x MXF: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
x AVI: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
x MPEG Audio: was wrongly flagging Xing info tag as CBR
x VorbisTag: does not skip DISCID
x Miscellaneous bug/crash fixes

Video
ID : 1
ID in the original source medium : 4113 (0x1011)
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main [email protected]@High
HDR format : Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, dvhe.07.06, BL+EL+RPU, Blu-ray compatible / SMPTE ST 2086, HDR10 compatible
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 2 h 0 min
Bit rate : 51.7 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Plex for Android 8.8 with support for Dolby Vision with MKV is out of beta and works!

I still prefer to use MRMC for non Dolby Vision titles in MKV format.

Would be nice to here if MRMC was making an effort to support this as well.

some news about it?

Everything is pretty much dead here.

No it’s not

We are still here, working hard... but nothing to report on the topic you are interested in.

You might want to consider supporting Dolby Vision in the Nvidia Shield TV. Dolby Vision is absolutely stunning, The Nvidia Shield TV is the only device that supports Dolby Vision profile 7 which is what is found on UHD Bluray disks. Plex support is a little buggy at the moment, but it works. Besides Plex, there is no other media playing application at the moment that supports playing Dolby Vision from MKV files. It would be a prudent business decision.

We are looking into what it would take to do that...

Dolby Vision support for MKV files on Nvidia Shield would definitely be a unique selling point for MrMC!

Kodi developers have already stated that it will probably not make it into Kodi 19 because it requires an update to the ffmpeg core. And the ffmpeg core needs to be updated first by the developers:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=349140&page=2

Hope the MrMC developers can make some magic happen

Currently using the ExoPlayer solution, but it's not ideal. Also tried the Plex route, but Plex seems to have slight audio sync issues and their Android TV client does not have an audio offset option.

(And yes, I know this is my first post here, but rest assured I have purchased MrMC already )

Nope, it is in Kodi 19, and people are testing it..

"Playback
Software decoding of AV1;subtitle improvements with new dark grey colour and selectable opacity; ability to provide a subtitle URI (URL, local file, etc.); static HDR10 and dynamic Dolby Vision HDR support (platform- and client-dependent). "

https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-19x-matrix-beta-1

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=349140&page=9