Here's my experience with the C8 ARC + PLEX...
1- For dual track DV: The container must be MP4 and muxed with the old mp4muxer/mp4box. (7-2) in the script.
2- For single track P7 DV: Some file will work some others will stutter or produce a black screen.
3- For the audio: It can be DTS AC3 AAC EC3. TrueHD won't work and will force HDR10 or fails to play
4- For the subtitles:
TS/M2TS: only external SRT will work. Any PGS subtitles will fail to play in DV.
MP4: internal or external SRT is fine.
Thanks for the help! A few follow-up questions:
The 7-2 script flow says it's for single-track output for older LG TVs. I tried it anyway and selected to convert the RPU to profile 8 and convert the TrueHD audio to DD+. The video track conversion seemed to have gone fine but I got multiple errors when trying to convert the audio:
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Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (pcm_s24le (native) -> eac3 (eac3_eae))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Output #0, eac3, to 'C:\Users\UNSCTrafalgar\Downloads\Movie_Convert\DoVi_Scripts_TOOLS\TEMP_folder\a1.eac3':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf58.65.101
Stream #0:0: Audio: eac3, 48000 Hz, 7.1, flt (24 bit), 128 kb/s
Metadata:
encoder : Lavc58.117.101 eac3_eae
[eac3_eae @ 000001dd2d922000] EAE timeout! EAE not running, or wrong folder? Could not read 'C:\Users\UNSCTrafalgar\Downloads\Movie_Convert\DoVi_Scripts_TOOLS\\EAE\Convert to Dolby Digital Plus (Max Quality - 1024 kbps)\frame-16372-0-0.ec3'
[eac3_eae @ 000001dd2d922000] error reading output
Audio encoding failed
[eac3_eae @ 000001dd2d922000] EAE timeout! EAE not running, or wrong folder? Could not read 'C:\Users\UNSCTrafalgar\Downloads\Movie_Convert\DoVi_Scripts_TOOLS\\EAE\Convert to Dolby Digital Plus (Max Quality - 1024 kbps)\frame-16372-0-1.ec3'
Conversion failed!
ERROR: The process "EasyAudioEncoder.exe" not found.
Later on, when the RPU was converted and injected, I got the following error. I think this is when the script tried to mux the audio track into the file:
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muxing into a MP4 DoVi file. Be patient, it can take a while. 40min+ on slow HDD!
IsoMedia import 1.mp4 - track ID 1 - Video (size 3840 x 1608)
[FileIn] Asked to read 5000 but got only 0
[FileIn] IO error EOF found after reading 0 bytes but file C:\Users\UNSCTrafalgar\Downloads\Movie_Convert\DoVi_Scripts_TOOLS\TEMP_folder\a1.ec3 size is 0
[FFDmx] Fail to open C:\Users\UNSCTrafalgar\Downloads\Movie_Convert\DoVi_Scripts_TOOLS\TEMP_folder\a1.ec3 - error Invalid data found when processing input
[Importer] Error probing C:\Users\UNSCTrafalgar\Downloads\Movie_Convert\DoVi_Scripts_TOOLS\TEMP_folder\a1.ec3
Failure while importing import: Filter not found for the desired type
Error importing C:\Users\UNSCTrafalgar\Downloads\Movie_Convert\DoVi_Scripts_TOOLS\TEMP_folder\a1.ec3#audio:lang=en:name=DDP: Filter not found for the desired type
Is there some file I need in the tools folder or some program I need to update?
Finally, going back to my experience with the sample videos, the "RPU FEL TEST DT DL P7" sample video did trip the Dolby Vision tag but the colors were strobing the entire time. Is there a reason for that? Even though it's giving that particular bug, the DV tag looks like progress to me. Again, thanks for all your help.
