How to make and watch Dolby Vision rips (every other way is a world of pain and misery):
#1 Buy a Sony UBP-X800M2
#2 Make a full-disc decrypted backup using MakeMKV
#3 Find the playlist for the version of the movie you want (it's probably 00800.mpls for the English version)
#4 Drop that into tsMuxer
#5 Set it to output M2TS, and select the audio and subtitle tracks you want
#6 Watch the movie
#7 Be free
#8 Live your life
#9 Never think about Dolby Vision ever again
Is it particularly difficult to import things in your country? There do seem to be lots of places that sell the X800M2 and will ship internationally (but I know there are sometimes a few countries that they can't ship to).
Slightly off topic, I'm also looking to upgrade my to TV to an OLED - preferably LG CX or C1. C1 is obviously newer but more expensive, so I'm leaning towards CX. Any idea if there are any known issues with either of them regarding DV playback? Many thanks.
Thanks for the advice on the X800M2. The price has been under $200 a few times in the last year, but for some reason jumped up to like $329 in the last few weeks. Will probably wait a while until it goes on sale again to pick it up as a secondary player along with my Oppo.
Hi, I'm thinking about buying a X800M2 for another room but am bothered with something. In a Dutch online review I read that Dolby Vision video isn't auto-recognised and you have to enable it in the menu. Which isn't a problem of course. But when enabled, the X800M2 is said to output every HDR content in a form of DV. Which wouldn't be without noticeable artifacts for non-DV content. Consequently, a user should switch between disabling/enabling DV for every other occasion.
Can you confirm this behavior? Because this review is a few years old, I actually imagine the issues are solved with later FW.
Hi, I'm thinking about buying a X800M2 for another room but am bothered with something. In a Dutch online review I read that Dolby Vision video isn't auto-recognised and you have to enable it in the menu. Which isn't a problem of course. But when enabled, the X800M2 is said to output every HDR content in a form of DV. Which wouldn't be without noticeable artifacts for non-DV content. Consequently, a user should switch between disabling/enabling DV for every other occasion.
Can you confirm this behavior? Because this review is a few years old, I actually imagine the issues are solved with later FW.
yes, this is true and still the case for USB and disc playback.
But with file playback via the network , somehow the player displays SDR/HDR10/DV in their native dynamic range.
Replaced my switch and cabling today, and the 800M2 seems to fare better so far.
Sometimes I have truehd movies start without audio, but when I FF/RWD a bit, it works.
#1 Buy a Sony UBP-X800M2
#2 Make a full-disc decrypted backup using MakeMKV
#3 Find the playlist for the version of the movie you want (it's probably 00800.mpls for the English version)
#4 Drop that into tsMuxer
#5 Set it to output M2TS, and select the audio and subtitle tracks you want
#6 Watch the movie
#7 Be free
#8 Live your life
#9 Never think about Dolby Vision ever again
Hmm why #4 and #5? Cna't the X800M2 play the full-disc backup directly?
So my hope of getting a x800m2 is gone. There's really no place in my country that sells it.
Is it particularly difficult to import things in your country? There do seem to be lots of places that sell the X800M2 and will ship internationally (but I know there are sometimes a few countries that they can't ship to).
I just checked and Amazon can ship to my country but the import fee is pretty high, adding 40%-50% markup on top of the original price. Same if I ask some 3rd party local company to ship it for me instead. Manufacturer's warranty is another problem. It won't apply abroad I suppose. I'm not sure if all these are worth the improvement over the x700 which I can purchase locally. I live in Vietnam btw.
Hey everybody first post here ... Wanted to know if the x700 does TV-led DV when playing back .m2ts backups via usb created using latest tsmuxer nightly (using full UHD BD backups), and also why creating a bdmv folder is now recommended for the x700? I never had an issue ff or rw with .m2ts files that i noticed at least, and the green screen bug I just worked around by restarting as I'm not switching between content that often. Sorry if this has been answered already finding a bit hard to read through all the posts.
I've been having more adventures with re-ripping for my X800M2. To cut a very long story short, it turns out that the current nightly builds of tsMuxer are producing corrupted output so I thought I should post a warning about that here. Apparently the last working version is the 23 January nightly, and there's a GitHub issue for the corruption bug.
The good news for me is that that's hopefully the source of all my woes. I've just gotta remux for the four-millionth time now to find out, so please wish me luck.
The good news for me is that that's hopefully the source of all my woes
My Dune 2021 test was with the latest tsmuxer and didn't get the error you're getting but it could explain the issue I'm having when I remux from dual track MKV.
My BTTF files were made a long time ago with an older tsmuxer.
but thanks for the info, I'll downgrade to the older version.
EDIT:, nop, dual track mkv to ts still doesn't work.
@RESET_9999
I used your tool to create measurements of Smurfs.The.Lost.Village.2017 in many times but received result always is a Smurfs.The.Lost.Village.2017.mkv.measurements.incomplete 71.4MB
So should I use it?
I've been having more adventures with re-ripping for my X800M2. To cut a very long story short, it turns out that the current nightly builds of tsMuxer are producing corrupted output so I thought I should post a warning about that here. Apparently the last working version is the 23 January nightly, and there's a GitHub issue for the corruption bug.
The good news for me is that that's hopefully the source of all my woes. I've just gotta remux for the four-millionth time now to find out, so please wish me luck.
Great... I just redid a shitload of bdmv folders to .ts with the bugged tsmuxer :/ Any chance of fixing these corrupt .ts files, or do i have to start ALL over? :/
... Wanted to know if the x700 does TV-led DV when playing back .m2ts backups via usb created using latest tsmuxer nightly (using full UHD BD backups), and also why creating a bdmv folder is now recommended for the x700? I never had an issue ff or rw with .m2ts files that i noticed at least, and the green screen bug I just worked around by restarting as I'm not switching between content that often. Sorry if this has been answered already finding a bit hard to read through all the posts.