BadlyDrawnBoy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 3:47 am
These dvhe.07.06 MKV remux files with BL+RPU+EL that are floating around, what can actually play them to their full extent? (and by full extent I mean including FEL and TrueHD Atmos). I'm asking because, as far as I know, the players that fully support profile 7 are the Blu-Ray disc players (and the clones), and (AFAIK, please do correct me if necessary) those don't play MKV's at all. So I don't quite understand who is the target of these remuxes. Hints?
First, I'm not sure why you mention Atmos. AFAIK it can be perfectly muxed in a DV mkv and I think most (if not all) mediaplayers support bitsream output on HDMI.
The quality difference between FEL/no FEL is much discussed. Opinions vary. It is said a lot of people wouldn't notice a thing between the two. As for the luminace abilities, nowadays tv's won't even come near full 10 bit ceiling, let alone 12 bit. Everybody should see & decide for himself, I guess.
I think there's a lot of MakeMKV rips out there because the software provides a rather convenient "1-click" way of decrypting & putting everything of a DV video losslessly together in one widely supported container.
Of course you're right that for most mediaplayers FEL can be dropped. But conversion of DV takes effort & time. Even more when deciding to recode baselayer.
I don't know when or if mediaplayers with "full" DV-FEL playback will have become common (and bugfree) goods, but already having full-blown mkv's by then will be nice of course.