Dolby Vision now possible through MP4 Mux.

[ragico]

Good evening people.
I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to convert (without quality loss) a FEL movie to MEL. I have some ideas about it and this is a first try.
In THIS archive you will find two files: the original file is the FEL one (generated starting from the ISO uploaded HERE by @RESET_9999), the MEL file was obtained by modifying the first.

If you feel like it, try both files. Personally I am interested in the tests carried out on devices that have proved capable of playing MEL files with profile 7 but not FEL files (Fire Stick 4K, some Android TVs, etc ...). With these latest devices the desired result should be:
FEL file -> HDR (or unplayable)
MEL file -> DV.

Please, in your feedback obviously indicate the outcome, the device and the player used (if you can, also use my version of ExoPlayer).

Thank you

Thanks Master, another prime from you.
My results:

FIRESTICK TV 4K:
Plex....FEL_ST_DL triggers DV but black screen
MEL_ST_DL triggers and plays DV
Kodi 19.1 Alpha and Exoplayer_DolbyVision_DTS-HD_FFmpeg_4.2_01_08_2020_no_debug....same as Plex

UGOOS AM6 PLUS:
Plex...both files trigger and play DV
Kodi 18.8 Leia and Exoplayer as above both files trigger and play DV

APPLE ATV 4K:
Infuse app: both files play HDR

SHIELD PRO 2019:
Plex...both files trigger and play DV
Kodi 18.8 Leia and Exoplayer as above both files trigger and play DV

All devices directly connected to Panasonic Tv's

[yusesope]

On the Fire TV Stick 4K (your ExoPlayer):
FEL file -> DV, black screen.
MEL file -> DV, plays fine.

FEL plays with HDR through Kodi+your latest exoplayer.

MEL plays and triggers DV through Kodi+your lastest exoplayer.

I'm playing these directly on my Android TV. (A cheap Indian brand, VU Cinema TV 50" with Dolby Vision).

FIRESTICK TV 4K:
Plex....FEL_ST_DL triggers DV but black screen
MEL_ST_DL triggers and plays DV
Kodi 19.1 Alpha and Exoplayer_DolbyVision_DTS-HD_FFmpeg_4.2_01_08_2020_no_debug....same as Plex

Thank you for your time!
The results are what I was hoping for but It's too early to claim victory !
The "final test" must be conducted on a full movie and not on a 60sec segment.
I hope cheaper devices don't run out of RAM due to a too large buffer.
We'll see.

Looking forward to a detailed method as I'd love to convert all my FEL titles into this format so I can play them directly on the TV.

There is currently no detailed method, just lines of code that only make sense to me...
In the next days/weeks I will release the 0.0.4 BETA version of my tool (I will update my original post HERE as always) so those interested can do all the tests they want and help me fix any bugs.

In the meantime maybe I'll write some technical posts to start a discussion and see if anyone has any ideas to validate/improve my logic.

[DaMacFunkin]

Hi, i probably know the answe to this, but is there a way to reverse the DoVi created mp4?

For example de-mux the mp4 file and make a working MKV out of it?

Thank you.

[userr]

UGOOS AM6 PLUS:
Plex...both files trigger and play DV
Kodi 18.8 Leia and Exoplayer as above both files trigger and play DV

You own UGOSS AM6 PLUS i see, can u confirm if it can play profile 7 files? Dual layer, dual track and dual layer, single track?

Thanks

[ragico]

UGOOS AM6 PLUS:
Plex...both files trigger and play DV
Kodi 18.8 Leia and Exoplayer as above both files trigger and play DV

You own UGOSS AM6 PLUS i see, can u confirm if it can play profile 7 files? Dual layer, dual track and dual layer, single track?

Thanks

It plays dual layer dual track in the form of mkv (dual layer single track) via kodi + Yusesope Exoplayer and .ts profile 4 (using Yusesope tool)

[Bresnik17]

I've had success creating Dolby Vision + Lossless Audio TS files with dozens of movies (using eac3to + Yusescope's tool + tsMuxer 04.06) but I have run into an issue with Braveheart that has me stumped. All of the audio tracks, including the TrueHD Atmos track, require a delay of 2,169ms in order to sync up with the video.

When I create the .TS file in tsMuxer with the audio delay set to 2,169ms, my 2019 Shield Pro reverts to HDR and transcodes down to DD+.

When I create the .TS file in tsMuxer with the audio delay set to zero, it plays in Dolby Vision & TrueHD Atmos on my Shield Pro but with the audio clearly a couple seconds ahead of the video.
Has anyone encountered this issue with other movies?
Are there any solutions to tackle this, such as removing the first 2,169ms of the video to make them sync up, or any way to add 2,169ms to the beginning of the .thd+ac3 file?

[shawnc22]

I've had success creating Dolby Vision + Lossless Audio TS files with dozens of movies (using eac3to + Yusescope's tool + tsMuxer 04.06) but I have run into an issue with Braveheart that has me stumped. All of the audio tracks, including the TrueHD Atmos track, require a delay of 2,169ms in order to sync up with the video.

When I create the .TS file in tsMuxer with the audio delay set to 2,169ms, my 2019 Shield Pro reverts to HDR and transcodes down to DD+.

When I create the .TS file in tsMuxer with the audio delay set to zero, it plays in Dolby Vision & TrueHD Atmos on my Shield Pro but with the audio clearly a couple seconds ahead of the video.
Has anyone encountered this issue with other movies?
Are there any solutions to tackle this, such as removing the first 2,169ms of the video to make them sync up, or any way to add 2,169ms to the beginning of the .thd+ac3 file?

when you're extracting the bl and el files with eac3to, did you notice any errors? when there's an a/v sync issue after remuxing, it's possible that there may be errors in the original video layers.

[Bresnik17]

I've had success creating Dolby Vision + Lossless Audio TS files with dozens of movies (using eac3to + Yusescope's tool + tsMuxer 04.06) but I have run into an issue with Braveheart that has me stumped. All of the audio tracks, including the TrueHD Atmos track, require a delay of 2,169ms in order to sync up with the video.

When I create the .TS file in tsMuxer with the audio delay set to 2,169ms, my 2019 Shield Pro reverts to HDR and transcodes down to DD+.

When I create the .TS file in tsMuxer with the audio delay set to zero, it plays in Dolby Vision & TrueHD Atmos on my Shield Pro but with the audio clearly a couple seconds ahead of the video.
Has anyone encountered this issue with other movies?
Are there any solutions to tackle this, such as removing the first 2,169ms of the video to make them sync up, or any way to add 2,169ms to the beginning of the .thd+ac3 file?

when you're extracting the bl and el files with eac3to, did you notice any errors? when there's an a/v sync issue after remuxing, it's possible that there may be errors in the original video layers.

No errors during the extraction and the issue appears to exist before that point. When I pull the original M2TS / MPLS files into eac3to and tsMuxer they already acknowledge the required delay:
eact3to:
1: Chapters, 22 chapters
2: h265/HEVC, 2160p24 /1.001 (16:9), 10 bits
3: h265/HEVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9), 10 bits - Dolby Vision Enhancement Layer
4: TrueHD/AC3 (Atmos), 7.1 channels, 48kHz, 2168ms
(embedded: AC3 EX, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB)
5: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
6: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
7: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
8: AC3 Surround, 2.0 channels, 224kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
9: Subtitle (PGS)
10: Subtitle (PGS)
11: Subtitle (PGS)
12: Subtitle (PGS)

tsMuxer:
Automatically sets the delay on all audio files to 2,169ms when imported.

[DaMacFunkin]

I've had success creating Dolby Vision + Lossless Audio TS files with dozens of movies (using eac3to + Yusescope's tool + tsMuxer 04.06) but I have run into an issue with Braveheart that has me stumped. All of the audio tracks, including the TrueHD Atmos track, require a delay of 2,169ms in order to sync up with the video.

When I create the .TS file in tsMuxer with the audio delay set to 2,169ms, my 2019 Shield Pro reverts to HDR and transcodes down to DD+.

When I create the .TS file in tsMuxer with the audio delay set to zero, it plays in Dolby Vision & TrueHD Atmos on my Shield Pro but with the audio clearly a couple seconds ahead of the video.
Has anyone encountered this issue with other movies?
Are there any solutions to tackle this, such as removing the first 2,169ms of the video to make them sync up, or any way to add 2,169ms to the beginning of the .thd+ac3 file?

when you're extracting the bl and el files with eac3to, did you notice any errors? when there's an a/v sync issue after remuxing, it's possible that there may be errors in the original video layers.

No errors during the extraction and the issue appears to exist before that point. When I pull the original M2TS / MPLS files into eac3to and tsMuxer they already acknowledge the required delay:
eact3to:
1: Chapters, 22 chapters
2: h265/HEVC, 2160p24 /1.001 (16:9), 10 bits
3: h265/HEVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9), 10 bits - Dolby Vision Enhancement Layer
4: TrueHD/AC3 (Atmos), 7.1 channels, 48kHz, 2168ms
(embedded: AC3 EX, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB)
5: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
6: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
7: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
8: AC3 Surround, 2.0 channels, 224kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
9: Subtitle (PGS)
10: Subtitle (PGS)
11: Subtitle (PGS)
12: Subtitle (PGS)

tsMuxer:
Automatically sets the delay on all audio files to 2,169ms when imported.

I had this problem with Braveheart, I seem to remember ripping it either movie only ISO with DVDfab then processing that output

[userr]

It plays dual layer dual track in the form of mkv (dual layer single track) via kodi + Yusesope Exoplayer and .ts profile 4 (using Yusesope tool)

So it doesnt play things with dual track? Basically like the shield then

[ragico]

It plays dual layer dual track in the form of mkv (dual layer single track) via kodi + Yusesope Exoplayer and .ts profile 4 (using Yusesope tool)

So it doesnt play things with dual track? Basically like the shield then

Yes

[Bresnik17]

when you're extracting the bl and el files with eac3to, did you notice any errors? when there's an a/v sync issue after remuxing, it's possible that there may be errors in the original video layers.

No errors during the extraction and the issue appears to exist before that point. When I pull the original M2TS / MPLS files into eac3to and tsMuxer they already acknowledge the required delay:
eact3to:
1: Chapters, 22 chapters
2: h265/HEVC, 2160p24 /1.001 (16:9), 10 bits
3: h265/HEVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9), 10 bits - Dolby Vision Enhancement Layer
4: TrueHD/AC3 (Atmos), 7.1 channels, 48kHz, 2168ms
(embedded: AC3 EX, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB)
5: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
6: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
7: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
8: AC3 Surround, 2.0 channels, 224kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2168ms
9: Subtitle (PGS)
10: Subtitle (PGS)
11: Subtitle (PGS)
12: Subtitle (PGS)

tsMuxer:
Automatically sets the delay on all audio files to 2,169ms when imported.

I had this problem with Braveheart, I seem to remember ripping it either movie only ISO with DVDfab then processing that output

Definitely a unique issue to have to solve for, but I ended up making it work by doing the following in case anyone else runs into this:
1. Extracted BL & EL HEVC files from the .M2TS or .MPLS file
2. Created BL+EL+RPU HEVC file using Yusescope's tool
3. Added ONLY the BL+EL+RPU HEVC file to tsMuxer 04.06 and used the "Split & cut" tab. I selected the "Enable cutting" box and set the "Start" time to the delay (2,168ms = 0:00:02.168) and left the "End" time untouched (0:00:00.000)
4. Muxed to .TS file
5. Muxed the newly created .TS file from Step 4 & the TrueHD Atmos track from the original .M2TS or .MPLS file together with the delay set to 0ms

Dolby Vision is triggered in Plex on my 2019 Shield and the TrueHD Atmos track is successfully Direct Playing and synced to the video.

[tr000]

Is there any way to get anything more than 640kbps AC3 in DV mp4s? For some reason my Roku TV can't skip around in the stream when playing .ts files, where I can put lossless audio.

[DaMacFunkin]

Is there any way to get anything more than 640kbps AC3 in DV mp4s? For some reason my Roku TV can't skip around in the stream when playing .ts files, where I can put lossless audio.

You can mux in DTS-HD later, whether the roku recognised the stream is another matter,!plex does in the shield, Zidoo Z9S doesn’t recognise the DTS-HD track and usually chokes.

[tr000]

Is there any way to get anything more than 640kbps AC3 in DV mp4s? For some reason my Roku TV can't skip around in the stream when playing .ts files, where I can put lossless audio.

You can mux in DTS-HD later, whether the roku recognised the stream is another matter,!plex does in the shield, Zidoo Z9S doesn’t recognise the DTS-HD track and usually chokes.

Oh I see, I actually hadn't tried using Plex, just the Roku Media Player with Serviio. On regular .mkvs with HDR10 it passes DTS-HD fine through HDMI ARC. But using the Mp4Muxer, I can only do AC3. How would I put higher quality audio in it?