2023-02-15, 12:06
No you can't. Please read previous posts.
2023-02-15, 17:59
(2023-02-15, 12:06)jjd-uk Wrote: No you can't. Please read previous posts.
Thank you for replying. I have read the previous posts. The main reason for not playing DV content according to those posts is licensing issue which Kodi cannot afford to pay. So, does this mean Kodi has to pay to even utilise the Dolby vision extension software which is already officially installed on the PCs?
2023-02-15, 18:06
(2023-02-15, 17:59)pshant98 Wrote:(2023-02-15, 12:06)jjd-uk Wrote: No you can't. Please read previous posts.
Thank you for replying. I have read the previous posts. The main reason for not playing DV content according to those posts is licensing issue which Kodi cannot afford to pay. So, does this mean Kodi has to pay to even utilise the Dolby vision extension software which is already officially installed on the PCs?
In addition to licensing, I believe Kodi would also have to be approved by Dolby, which probably won't happen.
Generally Dolby doesn't license software, they licence hardware and OS together.
That's why it works on Android, because Kodi on android hands off video playback to the android device. That can't be done on windows, Windows doesn't have an embedded native player, and even if it did is unlikely that Kodi could use it without a complete rewrite for the video player.
So I bought an Nvidia shield and it works great.
2023-02-15, 18:38
The extension you have is for UWP apps and only then for Dolby approved apps such as Netflix I think. To quote myself
(2022-11-22, 12:56)jjd-uk Wrote: You need an Intel CPU that has Dolby Vision support built in, which is not all of them, and AMD doesn't have any support of Dolby Vision at all. In addition only pure UWP apps can do Dolby Vision, which Kodi isn't, so would need a complete rewrite of Kodi which isn't going to happen.
(2023-01-09, 18:44)jjd-uk Wrote: DV is only supported on systems that have a hardware decoder and the OS must provide a protected video path to the hardware, none of this exisits for the DirectX API which we use on Windows.
2023-02-16, 01:17
Yes I don't think it has anything to do with whether or not "Kodi" can buy a license. The issue is the end-to-end design of Kodi and how it fits into the overall playback chain.
scott s.
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2023-03-05, 05:34
What if we users made a crowdfunding to buy the license for kodi?
2023-03-15, 22:14
We need this!!!!
Last piece of the puzzle for me to make Kodi perfect to have DV support
All my 4k remux's with DV on my 4k OLED.
Kodi 20.1
Windows 11
Last piece of the puzzle for me to make Kodi perfect to have DV support
All my 4k remux's with DV on my 4k OLED.
Kodi 20.1
Windows 11
2023-03-19, 18:25
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