General Specifications

Samsung 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 device models and the TV emulator.

General Features

Feature		2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Operating System		Tizen 8.0	Tizen 7.0	Tizen 6.5	Tizen 6.0	Tizen 5.5	Tizen 5.0	Tizen 4.0	Tizen 3.0	Tizen 2.4	Tizen 2.3
C# API Version		11.11.0	10.10.0	9.9.0	8.8.4	6.6.0	5.5.0	4.4.0	Not supported
Resolution	Application	1920x1080 (All models)
Resolution	Video	7680x4320 (8K UHD models) 3840x2160 (4K UHD models) 1920x1080 (2015 FHD models)

Table 1. General features

Platform Features

The following table define the detailed specifications according to Tizen platform version and year.

Type	Feature	TV Extension 8.0 Emulator	Tizen 8.0 (2024)	Tizen 7.0 (2023)	Tizen 6.5 (2022)	Tizen 6.0 (2021)	Tizen 5.5 (2020)	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	HTML5	HTML5	HTML5	HTML5
	DOM	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3	DOM3
	CSS	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3	CSS3
	JavaScript	JSC	V8	V8	V8	V8	V8	V8	V8	V8	JSC
Network Protocol	HTTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	HTTPS
	WSS
Tizen .NET	.NET Standard	v2.1	v2.1	v2.1	v2.1	v2.1	v2.1	v2.0	v2.0	No	No
	Xamarin.Forms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	TizenFX	11	11	10	9	8	6	5	4

Table 2. Platform features

NoteTizen .NET is supported since Tizen 4.0 for Smart TV.

The following table defines the player specific features supported by Samsung devices.

Important

Widevine Classic has been deprecated by Google. It is no longer supported on Samsung TVs due to maintenance issues since Tizen 4.0.
Verimatrix Web Client will no longer be supported on Samsung TVs released from 2023 onwards. In addition, starting from 2023, no Verimatrix Web Client technical support will be provided for any TV models.

Type	Feature		Tizen 8.0 (2024)	Tizen 7.0 (2023)	Tizen 6.5 (2022)	Tizen 6.0 (2021)	Tizen 5.5 (2020)	Tizen 5.0 (2019)	Tizen 4.0 (2018)	Tizen 3.0 (2017)	Tizen 2.4 (2016)	Tizen 2.3 (2015)
DRM	PlayReady		v2.5 (SL2000) v4.5 (SL3000)	v2.5 (SL2000) v4.5 (SL3000)	v2.5 (SL2000) v4.4 (SL3000)	v2.5 (SL2000) v4.2 (SL3000)	v2.5 (SL2000) v4.2 (SL3000)	v2.5 (SL2000) v3.3 (SL3000)	v2.5 (SL2000) v3.3 (SL3000)	v2.5 (SL2000)	v2.5 (SL2000)	v2.5 (SL2000)
	Widevine	Modular	v17.1	v17.1	v16.4	v16.3	v16.3	v14.1	v3.2	v2.08	v2.08	No
	Widevine	Classic	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
	AES	AES-128	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
	AES	SAMPLE-AES	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	No
	Verimatrix	Web Client	No	No	v4.1	v4.1	v4.1	v4.1	v4.1	v4.1	v3.6	v3.6
Streaming Engine	MPEG-DASH (XML metadata) ※ See MPEG-DASH Attributes Support		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Smooth Streaming		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	HLS (M3U8 metadata) ※ See HLS Tag Support		v10	v7	v7	v7	v7	v7	v7	v7	v7	v3
Subtitles	SAMI (UTF-8)		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	SubRip
	SMPTE-TT
	WebVTT (out-of-band)										No	No
	Closed Caption										Yes	Yes

Table 3. Multimedia player 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

The following table defines streaming features supported in detail.

Streaming Engine	Container	DRM					Feature
Streaming Engine	Container	PlayReady	Widevine Modular	AES-128	SAMPLE-AES (Since Tizen 3.0)	Verimatrix Web Client	Trick Play	Seek	Multiple Audio	Multiple Subtitles
MPEG-DASH	fMP4	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes (-16x ~ 16x)	Yes	Yes	No
Smooth Streaming	fMP4		No							Yes
HLS	fMP4 (Since Tizen 3.0)		Yes							Yes
HLS	MPEG-TS	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes (HLS v3)	Yes (-16x ~ 16x, since Tizen 3.0)		Yes (Since Tizen 3.0)	Yes (Since Tizen 3.0)

Table 4. 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)
Trick Play of HLS is available for content with EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM_INF tag.
Widevine Modular and Trick Play are only supported to VOD streaming.

HLS Tag Support

The folowing table shows the supported HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) tags for Samsung TV and the available Tizen platform version. The HLS tags list refers to HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition.

HLS Tag		HLS Protocol Version	Since
Basic Tags	`#EXTM3U`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
Basic Tags	`#EXT-X-VERSION`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
Media or Multivariant Playlist Tags	`#EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS`	Version 6	Not supported
	`#EXT-X-START`	Version 6
	`#EXT-X-DEFINE`	-
Media Playlist Tags	`#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
	`#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
	`#EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE`	Version 6	Tizen 3.0
	`#EXT-X-ENDLIST`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
	`#EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE`	Version 3	Not supported
	`#EXT-X-I-FRAMES-ONLY`	Version 4	Tizen 2.4
	`#EXT-X-PART-INF`	Version 10 (HLS Low Latency)	Tizen 6.0
	`EXT-X-SERVER-CONTROL`	Version 10 (HLS Low Latency)	Tizen 6.0
Media Segment Tags	`#EXTINF`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
	`#EXT-X-BYTERANGE`	Version 4	Tizen 2.4
	`#EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
	`#EXT-X-KEY`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
	`#EXT-X-MAP`	Version 5 (HLS fMP4 only)	Tizen 3.0
	`#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME`	Version 3	Tizen 3.0
	`#EXT-X-GAP`	-	Not supported
	`#EXT-X-BITRATE`	Version 8	Tizen 8.0
	`#EXT-X-PART`	Version 10 (HLS Low Latency)	Tizen 6.0
Media Metadata Tags	`#EXT-X-DATERANGE`	Version 7	Tizen 3.0
	`#EXT-X-SKIP`	Version 10 (HLS Low Latency)	Tizen 6.0
	`#EXT_X_PRELOAD_HINT`		Tizen 7.0
	`#EXT-X-RENDITION-REPORT`		Tizen 6.0
Multivariant Playlist Tags	`#EXT-X-MEDIA`	Version 4	Tizen 2.4
	`#EXT-X-STREAM-INF`	Version 3	Tizen 2.3
	`#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF`	Version 4	Tizen 2.4
	`#EXT-X-SESSION-DATA`	Version 7	Not supported
	`#EXT-X-SESSION-KEY`	Version 7	Tizen 2.4
	`#EXT-X-CONTENT-STEERING`	-	Not supported
Custom Tags	`#EXT-X-CUE-IN`	-	Tizen 3.0
	`#EXT-X-CUE-OUT`	-
	`#EXT-X-CUE-OUT-CONT`	-

Table 5. 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.

MPEG DASH Attributes Support

The folowing table shows the supported MPEG-DASH Attributes and the available Tizen platform version.

Attributes		Spec Version	Since
Main	Child
`MPD`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012	Tizen 2.4
`@mediaPresentationDuration`
`@minBufferTime`
`@type`
`@profiles`
`Period`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012	Tizen 2.4
`@duration`			Tizen 2.4
`@start`			Tizen 5.5
`AdaptationSet`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012	Tizen 2.4
`@codecs`
`@lang`
`@id`
`@par`
`@mimeType`			Tizen 3.0
`Representation`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012	Tizen 2.4
`@bandwidth`
`@mimeType`
`@id`
`@scanType`
`@frameRate`
`@width`
`@height`
`@audioSamplingRate`
`@sar`
`@presentationtimeOffset`			Tizen 3.0
`AudioChannelConfiguration`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014	Tizen 5.0
`BaseURL`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014	Tizen 3.0
`@serviceLocation`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014
`@dvb:priority`		ETSI TS 103 285 v1
`@dvb:weight`		ETSI TS 103 285 v1
`SegmentBase`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012	Tizen 2.4
`@indexRange`
`@timescale`
	`Initialization`
	`@range`
`SegmentTemplate'@$Number$`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012	Tizen 2.4
`@startNumber`
`@duration`
`@initialization`
`@media`
`@timescale`
`SegmentTemplate'@$Time$`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014	Tizen 2.4
`@timescale`
`@media`
`@initialization`
	`SegmentTimeline`		Tizen 5.5
	`@t`
	`@d`
	`@r`
`SegmentList`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012	Tizen 2.4
`@timescale`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012
`@duration`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014
	`SegmentURL`	ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012
	`@media`	ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012
`UTCTiming`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014 amd1	Tizen 2.4
`urn:mpeg:dash:utc:http-head`
`urn:mpeg:dash:utc:http-xsdate`
`urn:mpeg:dash:utc:http-iso`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2019	Tizen 5.0
`urn:mpeg:dash:utc:direct`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2019	Tizen 5.0
`ContentProtection`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014	Tizen 2.4
`@schemeIdUri`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014
`@cenc:pssh`		ISO/IEC 23001-7:2016
`@cenc:default_KID`		ISO/IEC 23001-7:2016
`@mspr:pro`		Playready in DASH v1.1	Tizen 3.0
`Location`		ISO/IEC 23009-1:2022	Tizen 8.0
`Event`	`@contentEncoding=base64`	ISO/IEC 23009-1:2022	Tizen 8.0
`SupplementalProperty`	`@schemeIdUri="urn:mpeg:dash:adaptation-set-switching:2016"`	ISO/IEC 23009-1:2019	Tizen 8.0
`Single DRM system`			Tizen 2.4
`Multi DRM system`			Tizen 5.0

Table 6. MPEG-DASH attributes support

Note

The same drm key should be used for the audio segment and the video segment.
Do not mux the audio segment and the video segment into one segment, but use them separately.