video player that supports Dolby Vision?

[stanleystf]

Does 16inch M1 Macbook pro support Dolby Vision? I've tried different players but none can play dolby vision videos without this purple tint.

Is there a video player that can play these videos with correct colors?

 

[galad]

QuickTime Player.
If your file is a MKV, use Subler to remux it to MP4.

 

[stanleystf]

QuickTime Player.
If your file is a MKV, use Subler to remux it to MP4.

Is there a way I can play MKV dolby vision videos without changing the format?

 

[galad]

Maybe Infuse on the App Store, but I never tried it.

 

[stanleystf]

Does someone here have infuse pro? Could you please test?

 

[bogdanw]

Movist Pro claims to have support for “Dolby Vision profile 5 (macOS 12 required)” https://movistprime.com/changelog.html
7-day trial https://movistprime.com

 

[galad]

Anyway it takes 5 minutes or less to remux a mkv to mp4.

 

[bogdanw]

Anyway it takes 5 minutes or less to remux a mkv to mp4.

Remuxing alone will not solve the problem, QuickTime will not open all Dolby Vision mp4 files. Here is an example https://www.demolandia.net/downloads.html?id=78563356

 

[galad]

That file works perfectly in QuickTime after being remuxed in Subler too 😉

 

[HDFan]

Anyway it takes 5 minutes or less to remux a mkv to mp4.

Why would you want to remux? Just play the native MKV file in Infuse, Plex, IINA ....

Mplayer


Infuse


IINA



Plex

 

[bogdanw]

That file works perfectly in QuickTime after being remuxed in Subler too 😉

What settings have you used? It still displays "This file contains some media which isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player." in Big Sur and Monterey

 

[galad]

Open Subler, select File -> New, import your file, save.

@HDFan IINA and Plex and MPlayer don't support Dolby Vision dynamic metadata. Maybe Infuse does? I don't know.

 

[bogdanw]

Open Subler, select File -> New, import your file, save.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s not just remuxing: it’s converting the E-AC3+Atmos, 6ch audio stream into an AAC, 2ch audio stream.

 

[galad]

That's the default option, it keeps the eac3 track and create an aac too, if don't want it just set it to passthru.

 

[bogdanw]

That's the default option, it keeps the eac3 track and create an aac too, if don't want it just set it to passthru.

Thank you for the walkthrough, now it’s working in QuickTime 🙂

 

[galad]

An explanation of the reason it didn't work: there are two way to mux HEVC / Dolby Vision in mp4, one puts some extra data separately in the track header, the other keeps this extra data inside the actual video data. QuickTime supports only the former.

 

[Tharayman]

Why would you want to remux? Just play the native MKV file in Infuse, Plex, IINA ....

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Infuse will only play DV profile5 from what I have read. Profile5 is only DV from streamers like Netflix, not from UHD discs.

 

[HDFan]

Infuse will only play DV profile5

Not sure I understand. Are you saying Infuse won't play ripped UHD content? It certainly does.

 

[Tharayman]

Pretty much anything will. But Infuse wont read all the DV layers on it. Only layer in profile 5. A UHD with DV will have other layers.

 

[scream13]

QuickTime Player.
If your file is a MKV, use Subler to remux it to MP4.

Quicktime doesn't open Dolby Vision files properly no matter however contained they are.
Movist Pro is the best choice.