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Old 25th January 2021, 22:02   #1  |  Link
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Pass over HDR10+ and Dolby Vision information?

Now that HandBrake finally has a first 10-bit pipeline, I was experimenting with converting some HDR movies. For regular HDR10 this is relatively easy. You just need to read out the HDR values with e.g. MediaInfo and than add the --master-display and --max-cll values in HandBrakes additional option box.
But, how would I do this with dynamic metadata from HDR10+ and Dolby Vision sources?
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Old 25th January 2021, 22:24   #2  |  Link
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For HDR10+ you can extract to JSON using https://github.com/quietvoid/hdr10plus_parser
And then feed the JSON to x265: https://x265.readthedocs.io/en/maste...on-dhdr10-info

For Dolby Vision, same principle: https://github.com/quietvoid/dovi_tool#extract-rpu
Feed to x265 with: https://x265.readthedocs.io/en/maste...lby-vision-rpu
Also have to specify the profile.

You'll need to figure out what profile your devices are compatible with, most likely converting to profile 8.1 is fine for most cases.
However this does not support cropped Dolby Vision encodes out of the box just yet, a modification to the code is necessary to override the metadata.
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And note a lot of Dolby Vision devices don't support Profile 8.1, and most sources aren't in that either. Converting between DoVi versions requires a full tone remapping, beyond the abilities of something like Handbreak.
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And note a lot of Dolby Vision devices don't support Profile 8.1, and most sources aren't in that either. Converting between DoVi versions requires a full tone remapping, beyond the abilities of something like Handbreak.
So far most streaming devices and Android TVs have no problem with YCbCr HDR10 + Profile 8.1 compatible RPU in the same stream, the Dolby engine interprets them correctly.
It's much more compatible than profile 7, at least

It's just a question of unsetting some flags and then the decoder has no problem. Converting profile 5 would be a different story.

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I'm interested, my TV is a Samsung Q70R so not compatible with DoVi, only HDR10+. What is the result if I recode a DoVi stream to x265 DoVi stream ? It will play as a standard HDR10 stream or it will not be compatible ?
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Old 26th January 2021, 22:28   #6  |  Link
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I'm interested, my TV is a Samsung Q70R so not compatible with DoVi, only HDR10+. What is the result if I recode a DoVi stream to x265 DoVi stream ? It will play as a standard HDR10 stream or it will not be compatible ?
Thank you.
If it is a Profile 8.x source, then the bitstream is in a "native" color volume and will work without the metadata, although perhaps with lower quality without the dynamic metadata.

If it's a non-backwards compatible base layer, like Profile 5, you'd need to do a full tone mapping conversion with specialized tools. That's a full format conversion, not even a straight reencode let alone a remux.
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Old 26th January 2021, 23:23   #7  |  Link
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Thank you !
How can I know the DoVi profile version ? With MediaInfo ?
And how does it work with original Blu ray ? My TV will play it as an HDR / HDR10 stream ? I don't have any DoVi BD now so I can't try but I ask for the future.

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How can I know the DoVi profile version ? With MediaInfo ?
And how does it work with original Blu ray ? My TV will play it as an HDR / HDR10 stream ? I don't have any DoVi BD now so I can't try but I ask for the future.
MediaInfo should tell you.

And I don't think any DoVi BD titles use 8.x.
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MediaInfo should tell you.

And I don't think any DoVi BD titles use 8.x.
Thank you so DoVi BD use profile 5 ? Or 7 ?
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Thank you so DoVi BD use profile 5 ? Or 7 ?
Profile 7.
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Profile 7.
Thank you so if I want to convert an DoVi BD (profile 7) to x265 DoVi file I must use profile 5, 8.1 or 8.2 because x265 supports only these profiles ?
And I must convert profile 7 to profile 8.1 so I can keep HDR10 + DoVi metadata ?
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Correct. However, you can only convert profile 7 to 8.1 with the existing tools. Since they share the same HDR10 base layer.
Profile 5 conversion is much more complex.
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OK thank you I'll try it. There are DoVi BD with profile 5 or all are profile 7 ? There is no quality difference between profile 7 or 8.1 ? Thank you.
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All Dolby Vision UHD BDs are profile 7.

Profile 7 FEL has the potential to be better, but in most cases (and current technology) it is not noticeably so.
It is also only fully compatible on UHD BD players.
Profile 7 MEL is equivalent to profile 8.1.

You can use google to find the differences between FEL and MEL.

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Erm, Profile 7 supports an enhancement layer, but 8.1 does not (just metadata on top of the HDR10 base)
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Erm, Profile 7 supports an enhancement layer, but 8.1 does not (just metadata on top of the HDR10 base)
Profile 7 MEL has a useless enhancement layer, so it's pretty much the same metadata.
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And there is no link between Dolby Vision metadata and HDR10+ metadata ? It's not possible to find a way to convert DoVi metadata informations to HDR10+ ? I don't know the structure of each file, perhaps it's stupid.
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And there is no link between Dolby Vision metadata and HDR10+ metadata ? It's not possible to find a way to convert DoVi metadata informations to HDR10+ ? I don't know the structure of each file, perhaps it's stupid.
There are patents on converting from Dolby Vision to HDR10+ but there are no public algorithms.
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And there is no link between Dolby Vision metadata and HDR10+ metadata ? It's not possible to find a way to convert DoVi metadata informations to HDR10+ ? I don't know the structure of each file, perhaps it's stupid.
For Profile 8.1 DoVi, conversion to HDR10+ is theoretically possible as they both have a HDR-10 base layer. Something like ColorFront Transkoder might have, or might get that sort of functionality. But it'd have to be a company with lots of image science chops who licenses tech from both Dolby and HDR10+ LLC.

Generating new dynamic metadata based on the base layer is possible today, and should yield pretty identical results in the cases where metadata is descriptive based on analysis without specific creative intent metadata tuning. Transkoder can do that today.

Another likely scenario is to generate both HDR10+ and DoVi 8.1 metadata simultaneously, and then insert the respective metadata into the same base layer HDR10 encoded bitstream.
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Thank you both. Is there a BD movie with DoVi and HDR10+ ? Or it's not possible ?
It should be a good thing to get a public algorithm to convert DoVi to HDR10+, I'm trying to find some informations.
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