Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L4.1@Main
HDR format : Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, Profile 5, dvhe.05.01, BL+RPU, no metadata compression
Codec ID : hev1
oldManInFL
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SMPTE ST 2086 is HDR10 only.
- If your playback equipment doesn't support HDR10 colors will look washed out/faded
dvhe.05.0x contains Dolby Vision only.
- If your playback equipment doesn't support Dolby Vision, then it will have a purple tint during playback.
Example: While I'm using a FireTV 4K Max Gne 2 which supports DV/HDR10, my Sony XBR43X800D TV only supports HDR10, so I get purple when playing back dvhe.05.xx files.
dvhe.08.0x and dvhe.07.0x contains Dolby Vision with fall back to HDR10.
- If your playback equipment includes Dolby Vision support, then it will play correctly with the DV tone mapping
- if your equipment doesn't support DV but does support HDR10/HDR10+, it will play correctly using the HDR10 mapping.
- If your equipment doesn't support either DV or HDR10/HDR10+, it will likely give you green or purple tint, or look washed out during playback.
NOTE: some devices have issues with DV profile 7, or dvhe.07.xx, where playback gives you a black screen. I know this impacted FireTVs and Apple TV devices about a year or so ago. Kodi and Plex have added work arounds in their code, I'm not sure about other players.
NOTE: some software will do tone mapping if your equipment doesn't support DV or HDR, thus correcting the color issues. While VLC on my PC seems to handle proper tone mapping for HDR10 (dvhe 7 and 8) to SDR, it doesn't for DV (hvhe.5x). And Plex Media Server has a toggle for HDR Tone Mapping (this setting only impacts HDR10, not DV).
IF you've selected HDR in Fab, and it downloads dvhe.05.xx then AppleTV+ may only have HDR streams encoded as Dolby Vision and not Profile 7 or Profile 8 (DoVi HDR10), or Fab can't get a HDR stream that has both DV and HDR10.
I cancelled my AppleTV+ Subscription, so I can't try. In SF when downloading from AppleTV+, are there options for both Dolby Vision (HDR10 Compatible) and Dolby Vision, like Max downloader has, when selecting your video and resolution? If so, do both result in dvhe.05.0x, or does one give you dvhe.08.xx and the other give you dvhe.05.0x? If it only has Dolby Vision as an option on the drop down, then I would expect a dvhe.05.xx (Dolby Vision only) file.
