[DDVT Tool] Dolby Vision RPU Demuxing / Injecting / Editing.

[von Suppé]

Originally Posted by Axeldook

MKV tool nix doesnt do mp4

Doesn't the DDVT_MKVTOMP4 script work for you?

[EDIT] My bad, apologies. The script doesn't convert 7 to 8.1.
I take it your tv doesn't support P7?

[Axeldook]

Hi,

thank you for all the responses.

LG oled wont play DV MKV, only DV mp4.

hence the ask, is there a way to add chapters to the mp4 files once ive used this tool to convert from mkv to mp4

[von Suppé]

Cli-tool mp4box.exe has the capability to write chapters in mp4 container. Eventhough QfG-dovitools has this onboard, I think adding chapters has not been implemented in the DDVT_MKVTOMP4 script. Hopefully @-QfG- has it on the to-do list.

If you don't mind a workaround with 3rd party tools, you can use CleverFFMpegGUI (frontend to cli-tool ffmpeg.exe) to add chapters to mp4 files. AFAIK it would only accept timecodes.txt files, so you'd first have to extract the chapters from your mkv into that format. Which chapterEditor is capable of.

https://www.videohelp.com/software/clever-FFmpeg-GUI

https://www.videohelp.com/software/ffmpeg

https://www.videohelp.com/software/chapterEditor

[Axeldook]

great stuff. will give it a try and report back

thank you

[von Suppé]

Originally Posted by Axeldook

will give it a try...

FYI when in chapterEditor, in the upper-left corner choose "Chapter editors" in which window you click on "Converter".
Select your mkv with "File" and at "Output format" choose "Timecodes (txt)". Beware to set proper and same Source- and Target FPS.
At last "Save as" and Bob's your uncle.

[EDIT]

To all, my apologies. I was mistaken in thinking ffmpeg accepting a chapter-timestamps textfile. I've asked hubblec4 (chapterEditor) for help.

[-QfG-]

-v0.63 Online!
*UPDATED Complete overhaul of the DEMUXER script.
*UPDATED Complete overhaul of the REMOVER script.
*UPDATED No more Target subfolders.
*FIXED minor bugfixes

I think adding chapters has not been implemented in the DDVT_MKVTOMP4 script. Hopefully @-QfG- has it on the to-do list.

DDVT_MKVTOMP4.cmd - Line 287:

Erase the switch "-map_chapters -1". I hope this works.

Or:
https://ikyle.me/blog/2020/add-mp4-chapters-ffmpeg

Is there a way to convert MKV Profile 7 from mkvtoolnix to MKV Profile 8.1 directly ?

Yes. Open the DDVT_HYBRID.cmd script. Now add in the HDR section your P7 File. Now add the same P7 file in the DV section. Press start and you have a P8 Hybrid.

[Axeldook]

great work !

[AgentXXL]

Just wondering if I missed something in the conversation... I was using 61.5 with no problems but I saw that 62 had been released so I updated to it. I noticed that there is no longer an option to mux the DV injected stream into a mkv with the audio and subtitles. I came back to check today and saw that v63 was released so I installed it, thinking it might fix the missing option (used to be option 5 for the injector script). I know I can manually remux using MKVToolnix, but is there a reason why that is no longer an option in v62/63?

Regardless, thanks again for these amazing scripts!

[Nico8583]

Originally Posted by -QfG-

Yes. Open the DDVT_HYBRID.cmd script. Now add in the HDR section your P7 File. Now add the same P7 file in the DV section. Press start and you have a P8 Hybrid.

Thank you, just tried it and it works.

[-QfG-]

Originally Posted by AgentXXL

Just wondering if I missed something in the conversation... I was using 61.5 with no problems but I saw that 62 had been released so I updated to it. I noticed that there is no longer an option to mux the DV injected stream into a mkv with the audio and subtitles. I came back to check today and saw that v63 was released so I installed it, thinking it might fix the missing option (used to be option 5 for the injector script). I know I can manually remux using MKVToolnix, but is there a reason why that is no longer an option in v62/63?

Regardless, thanks again for these amazing scripts!

The muxing Option is only available, if your Input File is a *.mkv or *.mp4. The setting is in the Injector Script default = Disabled and in the Hybrid Script default = enabled. Otherwise send me a screenshot from the Menu and i will check for errors.

EDIT: There is a fixed version 0.63 Online, a little mistake in INJECTOR script with the logfile. But the mux function still works:

[AgentXXL]

Originally Posted by -QfG-

The muxing Option is only available, if your Input File is a *.mkv or *.mp4. The setting is in the Injector Script default = Disabled and in the Hybrid Script default = enabled. Otherwise send me a screenshot from the Menu and i will check for errors.

EDIT: There is a fixed version 0.63 Online, a little mistake in INJECTOR script with the logfile. But the mux function still works:

I always use .mkv source files. I downloaded 0.63-Fixed and I'm still seeing no mux option. Here's screenshots from both Injector and Hybrid scripts.

Note that when I use DDVT_Options.cmd, it doesn't add a menu item for Hybrid. I also preferred the old method where it looked for a RPU.bin instead of needing to drag and drop.

I suspect it may be the menu entries in the registry are corrupted somehow - if I choose Remove from DDVT_Options.cmd, the menu items are still there, even after a reboot. I'll try manually removing them from the registry.

Sorry for the large pictures... forgot to resize before posting.

[AgentXXL]

Originally Posted by AgentXXL

I suspect it may be the menu entries in the registry are corrupted somehow - if I choose Remove from DDVT_Options.cmd, the menu items are still there, even after a reboot. I'll try manually removing them from the registry.

OK, after removing the entries from the registry manually I re-ran DDVT_Options.cmd after deleting the existing .ini file. Now I don't get context menus at all. Running Win11 Pro 23H2 fully updated.

Thoughts?

[bobowb]

Hello guys i am new here so please be good help me !

my TV is LG OLED C8 and i use the internal TV player to play movies As i know the TV supports DV Profile 8 too . I have problem with most of these "hybrid" DV-HDR .mkv files like the one below . The TV can play such files but the problem is that they always play in HDR mode and cant trigger the TV DolbyVision mode .

I have been tried these:

ffmpeg -i inputfile.mkv -c:v copy -c:a copy -strict unofficial outputfile.mp4

and to mux the .mkv file to .m2ts with tsMuxeR

but unfortunately the TV plays the .mp4 and .m2ts files again just in HDR mode but not in DolbyVision! I have been tried and all DDVT Tools scripts but no luck ...

So my question is there any more simple way to make the internal LG TV player to play such "Hybrid" files in DolbyVision mode ? Thank you in advance !

ID : 1

Format : HEVC

Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding

Format profile : Main 10@L5@High

HDR format : Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, dvhe.08.06, BL+RPU, HDR10 compatible / SMPTE ST 2094 App 4, Version 1, HDR10+ Profile B compatible

Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC

Duration : 1 h 2 min

Bit rate : 23.2 Mb/s

Width : 3 840 pixels

Height : 1 606 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1

Frame rate mode : Constant

Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 (Type 2)

Bit depth : 10 bits

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.157

Stream size : 10.1 GiB (97%)

Language : English

Default : Yes

Forced : No

Color range : Limited

Color primaries : BT.2020

Transfer characteristics : PQ

Matrix coefficients : BT.2020 non-constant

Mastering display color primaries : Display P3

Mastering display luminance : min: 0.0050 cd/m2, max: 1000 cd/m2

Maximum Content Light Level : 765 cd/m2

Maximum Frame-Average Light Level : 293 cd/m2

[Axeldook]

Hi MAte

i have some C2's and they will only play DV if you remove subs and chapters (mkvtoolnix) then with the new mkv file with just audio and video, drag and drop into the 'DDVT_MKVTOMP4' bat file and run it.

the Mp4 file it outputs will run in DV.

[bobowb]

Originally Posted by Axeldook

Hi MAte

i have some C2's and they will only play DV if you remove subs and chapters (mkvtoolnix) then with the new mkv file with just audio and video, drag and drop into the 'DDVT_MKVTOMP4' bat file and run it.

the Mp4 file it outputs will run in DV.

Thank you very much for the tip my friend ! Will test it later and report the result here

P.S Well i did all like you said but the TV doesnt trigger the DV mode again and unfortunately plays the .MP4 file just in HDR mode ...

Originally Posted by bobowb

Thank you very much for the tip my friend ! Will test it later and report the result here

P.S Well i did all like you said but the TV doesnt trigger the DV mode again and unfortunately plays the .MP4 file just in HDR mode ...

Hi "bob",

I haven't done this for a little while, but when I was doing DV stuff to play on my LG with the "built in player", I found that you needed to remove this part :- HDR format : Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, dvhe.08.06, BL+RPU,HDR10 compatible / SMPTE ST 2094 App 4, Version 1, HDR10+ Profile B compatible, using these tools, and I also found that it would only display DV when it was either a .ts or .m2ts file !!!!

So referencing AgentXXL's screenshot, I'd used item #4 in the "MENU" to "remove HDR10+"

EDIT:- I have been "playing around" with the latest build on a Hybrid video, and there appears to be no where you can remove any HDR10 info (as shown in the above screenshot), Menu item #4 isn't available

[bobowb]

Originally Posted by TDS

Hi "bob",

I haven't done this for a little while, but when I was doing DV stuff to play on my LG with the "built in player", I found that you needed to remove this part :- HDR format : Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, dvhe.08.06, BL+RPU,HDR10 compatible / SMPTE ST 2094 App 4, Version 1, HDR10+ Profile B compatible, using these tools, and I also found that it would only display DV when it was either a .ts or .m2ts file !!!!

So referencing AgentXXL's screenshot, I'd used item #4 in the "MENU" to "remove HDR10+"

EDIT:- I have been "playing around" with the latest build on a Hybrid video, and there appears to be no where you can remove any HDR10 info (as shown in the above screenshot), Menu item #4 isn't available

Thank you TDS but i already tried to remove the HDR+ metadata with DDVT_REMOVER.cmd (actually it removes just HDR+ but the HDR cant be removed)and to demux file to .m2ts but this doesnt make the TV to trigger the DV mode again ...

Originally Posted by bobowb

Thank you TDS but i already tried to remove the HDR+ metadata with DDVT_REMOVER.cmd (actually it removes just HDR+ but the HDR can't be removed)and to demux file to .m2ts but this doesn't make the TV to trigger the DV mode again ...

Yeah, well like I said, I haven't done any of this stuff for quite a while, and a LOT of things have changed, and I have forgotten probably just as much

Hopefully the "higher ups" will chime in with some advice.

There has to be a simple way of removing both types of HDR....

I know I was successfully modding some hybrid videos that would play on my LG.

I just need to get into it again !!!

There might be (probably is) a way to get x265 to remove the HDR & inject a DV rpu (I know it can inject an rpu.bin)

[bobowb]

Ok if someone knows let share his experience please !

[quietvoid]

The LG C8 doesn't work with current MP4 muxing tools. It should still work with tsMuxer if your file shows Dolby Vision in MediaInfo.
For MP4 you need to use Dolby's muxer from 2018: https://github.com/DolbyLaboratories...3a8e3effff/bin

Either way it's best to stick to .TS with tsMuxer, it should be working fine.