I tried that with my E6, and it does not recognize the file and will not play it. So then I attached the USB to my OPPO 203 and it also could not play the file. Finally I tried in on my Panasonic UB9000, and it played it back as HDR HLG, not DV or HDR, and only played it a 1 frame per second. So even the top UHD players can not play the DV file created by the iPhone. No wonder the ATV 4K can not either. I would imagine most AVR's will not pass it through either. Leave it to Apple to use a DV profile that is incompatible with most devices.
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iPhone 12 Pro HDR video on iPhone 12 Pro
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Same here on my CX. I literally have tried every way possible. The worst way is using Air play from Iphone to apple tv....its all choppy and the frame rate sucks and its not even in DV! The only way to kinda get what Apple described on the Key Note is just playing the videos from the icloud photos app on Apple tv and thats only HDR but not DV.
Did almost the same exact thing with my Panny UB820 and it played but was recognized as HDR HLG. (First time I have ever seen my C8 trigger that mode.) But my also played super slow...and upside down!
How are you all getting the footage off the phone to retain the encoding? For me I tried the method of copying it to OneDrive or iCloud first and that let me retain all the settings once it got to my Windows 10 PC. (I even confirmed the metadata with an app that reads the metadata.
I have not tried to pull the videos off my phone the "typical" way of plugging into my Win 10 Machine, and simply choosing "Transfer pictures and videos." I get a bad feeling that method will convert the videos to SDR.
You can actually go on Youtube using the LG app on the tv and search for HLG videos and watch them. Thats the only time ive ever triggered HLG on both my C8 and CX.
Same here. Read my earlier post on what I did a few pages back
Its a .MOV file and worked on my C9
I’m running the betas on my 12 pro and Apple TV and no matter what I do I can’t get DV to airplay to my C8. From what I can tell airplay is working like screen mirroring through the photos app. Lots of compression artifacts that clear up once motion stops. Video is choppy over airplay as well and my Apple TV is wired to the router so WiFi isn’t causing it.
Also tried the photos app straight on the Apple TV and the tv switches from DV to SDR when I play the video. When I set the tv to SDR and match content and frame rate the tv just plays the video without changing so it’s definitely not playing back in Dolby vision.
Also tried the photos app straight on the Apple TV and the tv switches from DV to SDR when I play the video. When I set the tv to SDR and match content and frame rate the tv just plays the video without changing so it’s definitely not playing back in Dolby vision.
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On my C7 (2017 LG Oled TV), transferring files to usb drive and playing back on the webOS of the TV comes up as “HLG HDR” (first time ever I have seen this format on my tv).
Videos in HLG HDR format look very colorful and clear on the TV - pretty similar to what I see on display of iPhone Pro.
All videos I tried played on my TV very smoothly and in proper 60fps, no issues with frame rates at all. Stunning colors and clarity. No DV though so I don’t understand.
However, I am sad that I can’t airplay it with proper codec at the same time. At least for now..
Videos in HLG HDR format look very colorful and clear on the TV - pretty similar to what I see on display of iPhone Pro.
All videos I tried played on my TV very smoothly and in proper 60fps, no issues with frame rates at all. Stunning colors and clarity. No DV though so I don’t understand.
However, I am sad that I can’t airplay it with proper codec at the same time. At least for now..
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Ive tried everything on a C8 and a C10 and nothing works. It would be nice if Apple explained how to stream Dolby Vision via Air Play like they said it would during Key note. Other than this I think the iPhone 12 pro is the best mobile phone I have ever owned.
Interesting, I tried the same with my E8 and didn't get HDR. How did you transfer the files to your computer? Airdrop (thats what i did)?
Under photos settings of iOS, I’ve set as “keep originals” when transferring files then airdropped to my macbook air. Finally transferred the files to a usb drive
and when you transferred them to a usb did they play back as dv on ur tv?
When I’ve used the YouTube app on my LG, I had found some videos that just played back as HDR, not specifically HLG HDR. But to be fair I was not searching for HLG specifically.
They played as HLG HDR as can be seen on the screenshot above in my previous post.
Hey guys...I think I found 2 workarounds. I've repeated this several times and was able to get the DV badge display on the TV while the video plays via Airplay. Here's what I did:
1) I have following devices:
- iPhone 12 Pro
- Apple TV 4k connected to 2019 LG 86SM9070 UHD TV
- Apple TV 4K connected to 2020 LG 75NANOCELL99 UHD TV
Workaround#1 - Play the DV recorded video on your phone and airplay it to the Apple TV 4k. The DV badge will display as the video plays
Strangely, if I play the DV video on the phone and airplay it directly to the LG TV, the DV badge will NOT show. I am sure Apple is aware of this.
Workaround #2 - I uploaded the DV video to a box folder (or any webserver that supports media playback). Copy the URL of the video and play it in Chrome or Safari browser on my phone. Airplay from the browser directly to the TV. The DV badge will display as the video plays. Airplay from the browser to Apple TV 4k also resulted with the DV badge getting displayed.
Try the above and let me know if you guys are successful.
1) I have following devices:
- iPhone 12 Pro
- Apple TV 4k connected to 2019 LG 86SM9070 UHD TV
- Apple TV 4K connected to 2020 LG 75NANOCELL99 UHD TV
Workaround#1 - Play the DV recorded video on your phone and airplay it to the Apple TV 4k. The DV badge will display as the video plays
Strangely, if I play the DV video on the phone and airplay it directly to the LG TV, the DV badge will NOT show. I am sure Apple is aware of this.
Workaround #2 - I uploaded the DV video to a box folder (or any webserver that supports media playback). Copy the URL of the video and play it in Chrome or Safari browser on my phone. Airplay from the browser directly to the TV. The DV badge will display as the video plays. Airplay from the browser to Apple TV 4k also resulted with the DV badge getting displayed.
Try the above and let me know if you guys are successful.
Im currently fighting a bad cold so I know I’m not thinking straight. But how you said this doesn’t sound like a work around, it sounds exactly like how it’s suppose to work: We AirPlay the videos from our phone to an Apple TV 4K.
So what am missing?
And work around #1 (which is the obvious way) hasnt worked for anyone in this thread.
Those 9 people can properly stream their 10bit HLG or HDR10 videos on any HDR TV while millions of iPhone 12 users can't unless they have Apple TV
This is the issue: you can Airplay the iphone 12 HDR video to any TV that supports Airplay but the file is metacoded to play in SDR if DV is not supported and you can bet your house that your TV doesn't support Dolby Vision profile 8.4 yet and no one knows if it ever will. The only way to play native HLG file without DV gimmick (Profile 8.4 is a super light profile that puts color graded HLG file into DV pipeline using gamma, nothing spectacular and has nothing to do with image or HDR quality) is to copy the file from iPhone to NAS or USB and then play it on your HDR TV.
iPhone 12 shoots in HLG format which is a broadcast HDR format known for it's comparability with both SDR and HDR TVs, that's why it's called Hybrid Log Gamma. Your iPhone then applies the color curve or color profile when you shoot the video and then it goes through DolbyVision metadata which in this case doesn't really matter at all. Image and HDR quality come from camera and color curve and not DolbyVision that comes at the end of the chain. You can upload original video file to YouTube and it will keep it's HDR properties cause YouTube supports HLG.
