DolbyVisionInfo
What a Dolby Vision video stream is, as its container declares it.
A Dolby Vision stream is an ordinary HEVC or AV1 stream, the base layer, plus a reference processing unit (the RPU) on every frame that says how to turn the base layer into the picture that was graded, and how bright each scene is. Whether the base layer is a picture of its own decides what playing it costs, and baseLayerPlaysAlone answers that.
Properties
What the base layer is when shown without the RPU, as the configuration's signal compatibility id: 0 nothing (profiles 5 and 10.0), 1 HDR10, 2 SDR in BT.709, 4 HLG and 6 HDR10 as an Ultra HD Blu-ray carries it.
True when the base layer is an HDR10, HLG or SDR picture of its own, which plays as any other stream of that kind does. False for profile 5 and profile 10.0, whose base layer is coded in Dolby's IPT colour space: the player composes each frame with its RPU into HDR10 before a renderer sees it, which costs processor time on every frame.
Whether the stream carries an enhancement layer, as profile 7 does. Nothing here decodes it, so such a stream plays its base layer, which is HDR10 of its own.
The profile as Dolby writes it: "5" and "7", and for the profiles that come in several compatibilities the compatibility after a dot, "8.1", "8.4" or "10.0".