General Specifications

Samsung display devices support a Web-based application engine and rich media playback capabilities.

The following tables define the Web platform environment and the media formats supported by various Samsung display device models.

General Features

Table 1. General features
  2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016
Operating System Tizen 6.5 Tizen 6.0 Tizen 5.0 Tizen 4.0 Tizen 3.0 Tizen 2.4
Graphic
Resolution		 Application 3840x2160 (YouTube, 8K UHD models only)
1920x1080 (2015 UHD models, all models since 2016)
1280x720 (2015 FHD models) 
Video 7680x4320 (8K UHD models)
3840x2160 (UHD models)
1920x1080 (FHD models)

Platform Feature

Important

Widevine Classic has been deprecated by Google. It is no longer supported on Samsung TVs due to maintenance issues.

Verimatrix Web Client will no longer be supported for TV models released from 2023 onwards. In addition, starting from 2023, no Verimatrix Web Client technical support will be provided for any TV models.

Table 2. Tizen platform features
Type Feature Tizen 6.5
(2022)		 Tizen 6.0
(2021)		 Tizen 5.0
(2019)		 Tizen 4.0
(2018)		 Tizen 3.0
(2017)		 Tizen 2.4
(2016)
App Engine HTML HTML5 HTML5 HTML5 HTML5 HTML5 HTML5
DOM DOM3 DOM3 DOM3 DOM3 DOM3 DOM3
CSS CSS3 CSS3 CSS3 CSS3 CSS3 CSS3
JavaScript V8  V8 V8 V8 V8 JSC
DRM PlayReady Yes
PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000
PlayReady 4.2 with SL3000		 Yes
PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000
PlayReady 4.2 with SL3000		 Yes
PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000
PlayReady 4.2 with SL3000		 Yes
PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000
PlayReady 3.3 with SL3000		 Yes
PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000
PlayReady 3.3 with SL3000		 Yes
PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000
Widevine Widevine Modular 15.2 Widevine Modular 15.2 Widevine Modular 14.1 Widevine Modular 3.2
Widevine Classic		 Widevine Modular 2.08
Widevine Classic		 Widevine Modular 2.08
Widevine Classic
AES-128 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Verimatrix Web Client Yes (v4.1) Yes (v4.1) Yes (v4.1) Yes (v4.1) Yes (v4.1) Yes (v3.6)
Network Protocol HTTP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTTPS
WSS
Streaming MPEG-DASH
(XML metadata)
HLS
(M3U8 metadata)		 HLS v7
(See HLS Tag Support)		 HLS v7
(See HLS Tag Support)		 HLS v7
(See HLS Tag Support)		 HLS v7
(See HLS Tag Support)		 HLS v7
(See HLS Tag Support)		 HLS v7
(See HLS Tag Support)
Smooth Streaming Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Subtitles SMI (UTF-8), SRT
SMPTE-TT
WebVTT (out-of-band) No
Closed Captions Yes
Note

  • TTML and DFXP subtitles are only supported for Smooth Streaming.

  • For HLS streaming, the WebVTT (out-of-band) subtitle format is recommended.

  • For MPEG-DASH and Smooth Streaming, the SMPTE-TT(text) subtitle format is recommended.

 Streaming Feature Support
           
Table 3. Streaming feature support
Streaming Engine Container DRM Search Feature
PlayReady AES-128 (2015~) Verimatrix Widevine Trick Play Seek Multi-audio Multi-subtitle
Sample
AES
(2017~))		 Modular (VOD Only) (VOD, Live)
MPEG-DASH fMP4 Yes No No Yes Yes
-16x ~ 16x		 Yes Yes No
Smooth Streaming No Yes
HLS TS No Yes Yes
(HLS v3)		 Since 2017 models:
Yes
-16x ~ 16x
(for content with
"#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM_INF" tag)		 Since 2017 models:
Yes (VOD Only)		 Since 2017 models:
Yes (VOD Only)
Note
  • When using Verimatrix, external audio playback is not supported.
  • For seamless switching condition, Audio and video packets should be processed with the same duration value. (frame rate, codec profile /level, sampling rate)

HLS Tag Support
     
Table 4. HLS tag support
HLS Tag HLS Version Availability
"EXTM3U" Version 3 Since Tizen 2.3 (2015 models)
"EXTINF"
"EXT-X-TARGETDURATION"
"EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE"
"EXT-X-KEY"
"EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY"
"EXT-X-VERSION"
"EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME" Not supported
"EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE" Not supported
"EXT-X-STREAM-INF" Since Tizen 2.3
"EXT-X-ENDLIST"
"EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE" Not supported
"EXT-X-BYTERANGE" Version 4 Since Tizen 2.4 (2016 models)
"EXT-X-I-FRAMES-ONLY"
"EXT-X-MEDIA"
"EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF"
"EXT-X-MAP" Version 5 Not Supported
"EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE" Version 6 Since Tizen 3.0 (2017 models)
"EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS" Not supported
"EXT-X-START"
"EXT-X-SESSION-DATA" Version 7
"EXT-X-DATERANGE"
"EXT-X-SESSION-KEY" Since Tizen 2.4 (2016 models)
Note
  • Media Sequence number among streams/renditions should be same for sync.
  • Discontinuity sequence number, if present in manifest file (.m3u8) must be in-sync among streams/renditions.