What in the actual fuck is going on? These encoders are smart people obviously, but the decision to only release HYBRID files rather than also releasing the P5 sources are absolutely fucking insane. These encoders have been around for years and all of a sudden they’re all doing this. Like what the actual fuck is happening out there? I feel like I only started seeing this bullshit happening right after Rarbg went down.
Many encoders just slap the hdr10/+ and the P5 streams together, not realizing or not caring that they are graded differently. This is sloppy work and it’s bullshit. If you wanna make a p8 hybrid that’s fine…IF you also release the P5 master. I see hdr10 only versions but not the P5 only versions. It’s infuriating.
ELI5 : what is p8 and p5
Dolby vision has multiple profiles. Profile 5 is what streaming services use. Profile 7 is what blurays use. Profile 8 i don’t fully understand but it’s used for these hybrid files. If you look at it in mediainfo it’ll say something like "dv 08.06 / smtp hdr10 compatible.
There’s another profile or two as well but I think they’re rare.