General Specifications

Samsung Smart TVs 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 Smart TV models and the TV emulator.

General Features

		2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	~ 2014
Operating System		Tizen 6.5.0.0	Tizen 6.0	Tizen 5.5	Tizen 5.0	Tizen 4.0	Tizen 3.0	Tizen 2.4	Tizen 2.3	Linux 2.6
C# API Version		9.9.0	8.8.4	6.6.0	5.5.0	4.4.0
Graphic Resolution	Application	1920x1080 3840x2160 (YouTube, 8K TV only)	1920x1080 3840x2160 (YouTube, 8K TV only)	3840x2160 (YouTube, 8K UHD models only) 1920x1080 (2015 UHD models, all models since 2016) 1280x720 (2015 FHD models)						960x540 / 32 bpp
	Video	7680x4320 (8K UHD models) 3840x2160 (4K UHD models) 1920x1080 (FHD models)
	Smart Hub	1920x1080 3840x2160 (8K UHD models only)			1920x1080				-

Table 1. General features

Platform Features

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.

Tizen (2015 ~)

Type	Feature	Samsung Smart TV (2015, 2016)	Samsung Smart TV (2017, 2018)	Samsung Smart TV (2019)	Samsung Smart TV 2020	Samsung Smart TV 2021	Samsung Smart TV 2022	TV Extension 6.5 Emulator
App Engine	HTML	HTML5	HTML5	HTML5	HTML5	HTML5	HTML5	HTML5
	DOM	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3
	CSS	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3
	JavaScript	JSC	V8	V8	V8	V8	V8	V8
DRM	PlayReady	Yes PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000	Yes PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000(2017, 2018) PlayReady 3.3 with SL3000(2018)	Yes PlayReady 2.5 with SL2000(2019) PlayReady 3.3 with SL3000(2019)	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 4.4 with SL3000	No
	Widevine	Widevine Modular 2.08(2016) Widevine Classic2015,2016)	Widevine Modular 2.08(2017) Widevine Modular 3.2(2018) Widevine Classic(2017)	Widevine Modular 14.1	Widevine Modular 16.3	Widevine Modular 16.3	Widevine Modular 16.4	No
	AES-128	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Verimatrix Web Client	Yes (v3.6)	Yes (v4.1)	Yes (v4.1)	Yes (v4.1)	Yes (v4.1)	Yes (v4.1)	Yes (v4.1)
Network Protocol	HTTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	HTTPS
	WSS
Streaming	MPEG-DASH (XML metadata)
	HLS (M3U8 metadata)	2015 models: HLS v3 2016 models: HLS v7 (See HLS Tag Support)	HLS v7 (See HLS Tag Support)	HLS v7 (See HLS Tag Suppor)	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	Yes
Subtitles	SMI (UTF-8), SRT
	SMPTE-TT
	WebVTT (out-of-band)	No
	Closed Captions	Yes
Tizen .NET (since 2018)	.NET Standard API	No	.NET Standard 2.0	.Net Standard 2.0	.Net Standard 2.1	.Net Standard 2.1	.Net Standard 2.1	.Net Standard 2.1
	Xamarin.Forms		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	TizenFX		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Table 2. Tizen platform features

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

SampleAES (2017~)

Streaming Engine	Container	DRM				Search		Feature
		PlayReady	AES-128 (2015~)	Verimatrix	Widevine	Trick Play	Seek	Multi-audio	Multi-subtitle
		PlayReady	Sample AES (2017~))	Verimatrix	Modular	(VOD Only)	(VOD, Live)	Multi-audio	Multi-subtitle
MPEG-DASH	fMP4	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes -16x ~ 16x	Yes	Yes	No
Smooth Streaming	fMP4	Yes	No	No	No	Yes -16x ~ 16x		Yes	Yes
HLS	TS	No	Yes	Yes (HLS v3)	No	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)
HLS	fMP4 since 2020	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes(-16x ~ 16x (for content with "#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM_INF" tag))	Yes	Yes	Yes

Table 3. Streaming feature support

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

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"		Since tizen 3.0 (2016 models)
"EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE"		Not supported
"EXT-X-STREAM-INF"		Since Tizen 2.3
"EXT-X-ENDLIST"		Since Tizen 2.3
"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	Since Tizen 6.0 (2020 models onwards for HLS fmp4 only)
"EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE"	Version 6	Since Tizen 3.0 (2017 models)
"EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS"		Not supported
"EXT-X-START"		Not supported
"EXT-X-SESSION-DATA"	Version 7
"EXT-X-DATERANGE"		Since Tizen 3.0(2017 models)
"EXT-X-SESSION-KEY"		Since Tizen 2.4 (2016 models)
"EXT-X-CUE-IN"	HLS Customized Tags	Since Tizen 3.0 (2017 models)
"EXT-X-CUE-OUT"
"EXT-X-CUE-OUT-CONT"

Table 4. HLS tag support

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.