There's some discussion in Kodi forum about DV possibility on PC. Think many would prefer PC over Android boxes. Just curious what devs, experts here think?
[x86-64] Dolby Vision a Possibility on PC?
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March 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM -
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Doesn't matter. Dolby Vision costs money per device license. Buy a device with a DV license.
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It's important to understand that DV is not 'a' standard, it's a collection of them. It is technically possible to implement support for all DV requirements on PC boxes. However there are quite a few technical barriers towards that happening. There are also a pile of legal issues. The technical requirements are slowly being chipped-away at, so there is full support for Kodi on Android (on licensed hardware that follows standards) but only partial support for Kodi on Linux; there are still things missing in ffmpeg and the Linux kernel DRM architecture and hardware-specific drivers. As a result there are many dissinformation threads from DV "experts" in forums that reflect the disconnect between their opinions on on how things work, and actual facts

There is currently only one known open-source implementation of FEL 5/7 and that's in OSMC, and the term open-source means only that it doesn't depend on closed-source Dolby libraries. However this open implementation depends heavily on the Amlogic vendor kernel (with its own proprietary DRM architecture) and intentionally uses OP-TEE secureworld to prevent an army of Dolby lawyers from inspecting how it's been done, so the open implementation is effectively closed.
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Thanks... hoping remaining technical barriers continue "being chipped-away at", where legal is at least in the gray :).
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Stay clean.

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Cool, but I guess it's illegal.
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Small detail 😉😅.
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Small detail 😉😅.
Shutdown by Dolby would hurt.

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It all depends on how the implementation has been done. If Astra decided to decompile/reverse Dolby blobs then the outcome is illegal. If it's been done under "clean room" conditions (which arguably might be impossible with AI agents that learn from other users input) then it's probably harder for Dolby to challenge. Either way, the moment source code that works is posted or leaked somewhere things will be interesting.
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So if it's an independent code base, then it's legal? In that case we could use it for "scien-tific, non-commercial purposes".