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Disabling Dolby Vision playback - Makimer - 2025-03-21

Hello,
My TV does support Dolby vision but has quite a poor implementation of it sadly, And many my files are DV
is there a way to force playback of HDR10 or better ye HDR10+ instead? perhaps just global disable dv option or something alike.


RE: Disabling Dolby Vision playback - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-21

There are efforts to do something like what you've described. But no ETA.

An option is to simply strip your movies/shows of Dolby Vision metadata (profiles 7 and 8 only) which converts them to plain HDR10. I wrote a guide for the process on the walkthrough sub-forum.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-converting-dolby-vision-to-hdr10