This document specifies the required data formatting and signaling between a server and its clients to enable Dolby Vision to be transmitted within fragmented MPEG-4 files under HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol. Please see Dolby Vision - Streams within the HTTP Live Streaming format below:

Note: Dolby Vision licensees may have access to other versions of this document, and should use that for design and development.

How to QC a Dolby Vision stream?

Utilize the tools below to validate if Dolby Vision stream meet syntax, metadata, and signaling requirements of Dolby specifications.

Dolby Vision Professional Verification Toolkit Lite

The Dolby Vision Professional Verification Toolkit Lite provides a set of applications that enables verification of Dolby Vision bitstreams and metadata. You can access the toolkit here.

Dolby Stream Validator

This tool verifies the proper signaling of Dolby Vision in the ISOBMFF format (AKA mp4 container), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), and MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH). To utilize the Dolby Stream Validator, visit this link.

MediaInfo

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. It is a multiplatform tool available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. You can download it from the MediaInfo home page.