This document defines the structures for the storage of Dolby® Vision video streams in a file format compliant with the ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF).

An example file format derived from the ISOBMFF includes the MP4 file format.

Please refer to the following open source github project - hosted by Dolby - for the sample code which implements this specification:  
https://github.com/DolbyLaboratories/dlb_mp4base and https://github.com/DolbyLaboratories/dlb_mp4demux

For more information, feel free to see Dolby Vision Streams Within the ISO Base Media File Format Version 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.