If you’re using Plex on a PS5, you might have encountered playback issues with Dolby Vision (DoVi) content. The PS5 doesn’t support Dolby Vision playback, and Plex currently lacks the ability to transcode these files to a compatible format.

PS5 error

When this happens, my usual workaround was to delete the DoVi file in Sonarr or Radarr and manually download a non-DoVi version. For instance, in the example below, I’d need to avoid any of the releases with DV in the name.

Sonarr search box

However, constantly doing this manually became tedious. I decided to automate the process by configuring release profiles to automatically exclude Dolby Vision content.

Here’s how to set it up:

  1. Create a new Release Profile in Sonarr/Radarr:

Sonarr settings

  1. Add these two regex patterns to the Must not contain field:
/\b(dv|dovi|dolby[ .]vision)\b.(?=[ .-]web[ .-]?(dl|rip)\b)/i
/(?=[ .-]web[ .-]?(dl|rip)\b).\b(dv|dovi|dolby[ .]vision)\b/i
  1. Set the Indexer to (Any) and enable the profile:

Sonarr profile

That’s it! Now your *arr applications will automatically skip any Dolby Vision releases. While this solution works great for my current setup, I’m going to be sad when I eventually upgrade to an OLED TV that supports Dolby Vision. But that’s a problem for future Alex.